Robust Surgical Tools Detection in Endoscopic Videos with Noisy Data
Information Technology University(信息技术大学);University of Bristol(布里斯托尔大学);Bristol Heart Institute(布里斯托尔心脏研究所);University of the West of England(西英格兰大学);Qatar University(卡塔尔大学)
Adnan Qayyum, Hassan Ali, Massimo Caputo, Hunaid Vohra, Taofeek Akinosho, Sofiat Abioye, Ilhem Berrou, Paweł Capik, Junaid Qadir, Muhammad Bilal
Over the past few years, surgical data science has attracted substantial interest from the machine learning (ML) community. Various studies have demonstrated the efficacy of emerging ML techniques in analysing surgical data, particularly recordings of procedures, for digitizing clinical and non-clinical functions like preoperative planning, context-aware decision-making, and operating skill assessment. However, this field is still in its infancy and lacks representative, well-annotated datasets for training robust models in intermediate ML tasks. Also, existing datasets suffer from inaccurate labels, hindering the development of reliable models. In this paper, we propose a systematic methodology for developing robust models for surgical tool detection using noisy data. Our methodology introduces two key innovations: (1) an intelligent active learning strategy for minimal dataset identification and label correction by human experts; and (2) an assembling strategy for a student-teacher model-based self-training framework to achieve the robust classification of 14 surgical tools in a semi-supervised fashion. Furthermore, we employ weighted data loaders to handle difficult class labels and address class imbalance issues. The proposed methodology achieves an average F1-score of 85.88\% for the ensemble model-based self-training with class weights, and 80.88\% without class weights for noisy labels. Also, our proposed method significantly outperforms existing approaches, which effectively demonstrates its effectiveness.
Accurate and robust tracking and reconstruction of the surgical scene is a critical enabling technology toward autonomous robotic surgery. Existing algorithms for 3D perception in surgery mainly rely on geometric information, while we propose to also leverage semantic information inferred from the endoscopic video using image segmentation algorithms. In this paper, we present a novel, comprehensive surgical perception framework, Semantic-SuPer, that integrates geometric and semantic information to facilitate data association, 3D reconstruction, and tracking of endoscopic scenes, benefiting dow…
University of California San Diego(加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校);Zhejiang University(浙江大学);Alibaba-Zhejiang University Joint Research Institute of Frontier Technologies(阿里巴巴-浙江大学前沿技术联合研究院)
Traditional control and task automation have been successfully demonstrated in a variety of structured, controlled environments through the use of highly specialized modeled robotic systems in conjunction with multiple sensors. However, the application of autonomy in endoscopic surgery is very challenging, particularly in soft tissue work, due to the lack of high-quality images and the unpredictable, constantly deforming environment. In this work, we propose a novel surgical perception framework, SuPer, for surgical robotic control. This framework continuously collects 3D geometric information…
Surgical robots are used to perform minimally invasive surgery and alleviate much of the burden imposed on surgeons. Our group has developed a surgical robot to aid in the removal of tumors at the base of the skull via access through the nostrils. To avoid injuring the patients, a collision-avoidance algorithm that depends on having an accurate model for the poses of the instruments' shafts is used. Given that the model's parameters can change over time owing to interactions between instruments and other disturbances, the online estimation of the poses of the instrument's shaft is essential. I…
CholecTriplet2022: Show me a tool and tell me the triplet -- an endoscopic vision challenge for surgical action triplet detection
University of Strasbourg(斯特拉斯堡大学);CNRS(法国国家科学研究中心);IHU Strasbourg(斯特拉斯堡大学医院研究所);Technical University Munich(慕尼黑工业大学);Riwolink GmbH(Riwolink有限公司);German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)(德国癌症研究中心);Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);IPCA(葡萄牙卡瓦多和阿韦河理工学院);University of Minho(米尼奥大学)
Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences, University College London(伦敦大学学院威康/EPSRC介入与外科科学中心);Department of Neurosurgery, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery(国立神经病学与神经外科医院神经外科)
Video motion magnification could directly highlight subsurface blood vessels in endoscopic video in order to prevent inadvertent damage and bleeding. Applying motion filters to the full surgical image is however sensitive to residual motion from the surgical instruments and can impede practical application due to aberration motion artefacts. By storing the temporal filter response from local spatial frequency information for a single cardiovascular cycle prior to tool introduction to the scene, a filter can be used to determine if motion magnification should be active for a spatial region of t…
Mannheim University of Applied Sciences(曼海姆应用科学大学);Magdeburg University(马格德堡大学);Heidelberg University Hospital(海德堡大学医院)
Phantoms for surgical training are able to mimic cutting and suturing properties and patient-individual shape of organs, but lack a realistic visual appearance that captures the heterogeneity of surgical scenes. In order to overcome this in endoscopic approaches, hyperrealistic concepts have been proposed to be used in an augmented reality-setting, which are based on deep image-to-image transformation methods. Such concepts are able to generate realistic representations of phantoms learned from real intraoperative endoscopic sequences. Conditioned on frames from the surgical training process, …
LighTDiff: Surgical Endoscopic Image Low-Light Enhancement with T-Diffusion
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)(香港中文大学);Shenzhen Research Institute, CUHK(香港中文大学深圳研究院);The University of Sydney(悉尼大学);Qilu Hospital of Shandong University(山东大学齐鲁医院)
We introduce the task of stereo video reconstruction or, equivalently, 2D-to-3D video conversion for minimally invasive surgical video. We design and implement a series of end-to-end U-Net-based solutions for this task by varying the input (single frame vs. multiple consecutive frames), loss function (MSE, MAE, or perceptual losses), and network architecture. We evaluate these solutions by surveying ten experts - surgeons who routinely perform endoscopic surgery. We run two separate reader studies: one evaluating individual frames and the other evaluating fully reconstructed 3D video played on…
University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学);Suzhou Institute for Advanced Research, University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学苏州高等研究院);Suzhou Institute of Intelligent Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院苏州智能计算技术研究院)
Robotic-assisted surgery allows surgeons to conduct precise surgical operations with stereo vision and flexible motor control. However, the lack of 3D spatial perception limits situational awareness during procedures and hinders mastering surgical skills in the narrow abdominal space. Depth estimation, as a representative perception task, is typically defined as an image reconstruction problem. In this work, we show that depth estimation can be reformed from a 3D surface perspective. We propose a loss function for depth estimation that integrates the surface-aware constraints, leading to a fas…
F2PASeg: Feature Fusion for Pituitary Anatomy Segmentation in Endoscopic Surgery
1Centre for Artificial Intelligence;Robotics, Hong Kong Institute of Science \& Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2The University of Hong Kong 3Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science
SurgiSR4K: A High-Resolution Endoscopic Video Dataset for Robotic-Assisted Minimally Invasive Procedures
Intuitive Surgical, Inc.(Intuitive Surgical公司);Johns Hopkins Medicine Neurosurgery(约翰霍普金斯医学神经外科);Johns Hopkins University Electrical and Computer Engineering(约翰霍普金斯大学电气与计算机工程);University of British Columbia Electrical and Computer Engineering(不列颠哥伦比亚大学电气与计算机工程);Wilford & Kate Bailey Small Animal Teaching Hospital(威尔福德与凯蒂·贝利小动物教学医院)
EndoControlMag: Robust Endoscopic Vascular Motion Magnification with Periodic Reference Resetting and Hierarchical Tissue-aware Dual-Mask Control
organization= Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong , state= Hong Kong SAR , country= China;organization= The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Research Institute , city= Shen Zhen , state= Guangdong , country= China;organization= The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University , city= Wenzhou , state= Zhejiang , country= China;organization= Department of General Surgery \& Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine for Gastrointestinal Tumor, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University , city= Guang Zhou , state= Guangdong , country= China;organization= Department of Otolaryngology-Head;Neck Surgery, Singapore General Hospital, Duke-NUS Medical School , country= Singapore;organization= Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Robotics Perception;the Department of Electronic;Electrical Engineering, Southern University of Science
Vanderbilt University(范德堡大学);Vanderbilt University Medical Center(范德堡大学医学中心)
Image segmentation has been increasingly applied in medical settings as recent developments have skyrocketed the potential applications of deep learning. Urology, specifically, is one field of medicine that is primed for the adoption of a real-time image segmentation system with the long-term aim of automating endoscopic stone treatment. In this project, we explored supervised deep learning models to annotate kidney stones in surgical endoscopic video feeds. In this paper, we describe how we built a dataset from the raw videos and how we developed a pipeline to automate as much of the process …
ICube(ICube实验室);University of Strasbourg(斯特拉斯堡大学);CNRS(法国国家科学研究中心);IHU Strasbourg(斯特拉斯堡大学医院研究所);University Hospital of Strasbourg(斯特拉斯堡大学医院);IRCAD(法国消化外科研究所);Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS(阿戈斯蒂诺·杰梅利大学综合医院基金会IRCCS)
Recognition of surgical activity is an essential component to develop context-aware decision support for the operating room. In this work, we tackle the recognition of fine-grained activities, modeled as action triplets <instrument, verb, target> representing the tool activity. To this end, we introduce a new laparoscopic dataset, CholecT40, consisting of 40 videos from the public dataset Cholec80 in which all frames have been annotated using 128 triplet classes. Furthermore, we present an approach to recognize these triplets directly from the video data. It relies on a module called Class Act…
Xiamen University(厦门大学);The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学);Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Xiamen University(厦门大学附属中山医院);The Hong Kong Polytechnic University(香港理工大学)
We propose a novel shape-aware relation network for accurate and real-time landmark detection in endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) surgery. This task is of great clinical significance but extremely challenging due to bleeding, lighting reflection, and motion blur in the complicated surgical environment. Compared with existing solutions, which either neglect geometric relationships among targeting objects or capture the relationships by using complicated aggregation schemes, the proposed network is capable of achieving satisfactory accuracy while maintaining real-time performance by taking…