Monocular relative and metric depth estimation has seen a tremendous boost in the last few years due to the sharp advancements in foundation models and in particular transformer based networks. As we start to see applications to the domain of endoscopic images, there is still a lack of robust benchmarks and high-quality datasets in that area. This paper addresses these limitations by presenting a comprehensive benchmark of state-of-the-art (metric and relative) depth estimation models evaluated on real, unseen endoscopic images, providing critical insights into their generalisation and performance in clinical scenarios. Additionally, we introduce and publish a novel synthetic dataset (EndoSynth) of endoscopic surgical instruments paired with ground truth metric depth and segmentation masks, designed to bridge the gap between synthetic and real-world data. We demonstrate that fine-tuning depth foundation models using our synthetic dataset boosts accuracy on most unseen real data by a significant margin. By providing both a benchmark and a synthetic dataset, this work advances the field of depth estimation for endoscopic images and serves as an important resource for future research. Project page, EndoSynth dataset and trained weights are available at https://github.com/TouchSurgery/EndoSynth.
The Johns Hopkins University（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学）；Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions（约翰斯·霍普金斯医疗机构）
We present a self-supervised learning-based pipeline for dense 3D reconstruction from full-length monocular endoscopic videos without a priori modeling of anatomy or shading. Our method only relies on unlabeled monocular endoscopic videos and conventional multi-view stereo algorithms, and requires neither manual interaction nor patient CT in both training and application phases. In a cross-patient study using CT scans as groundtruth, we show that our method is able to produce photo-realistic dense 3D reconstructions with submillimeter mean residual errors from endoscopic videos from unseen pat…
Endo-4DGS: Endoscopic Monocular Scene Reconstruction with 4D Gaussian Splatting
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)（香港中文大学）；University College London（伦敦大学学院）；Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering, CUHK（香港中文大学信兴高等工程研究所）；Shenzhen Research Institute, CUHK（香港中文大学深圳研究院）
MonoPCC: Photometric-invariant Cycle Constraint for Monocular Depth Estimation of Endoscopic Images
Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）；Wuhan United Imaging Healthcare Surgical Technology Co., Ltd.（武汉联影外科技术有限公司）；Tongji Hospital（同济医院）；Tongji Medical College（同济医学院）；Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics（布里顿·钱斯生物光子学中心）；Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics（武汉光电国家实验室）
Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Bogazici University（波加兹奇大学生物医学工程研究所）；Computer Science Department, University of Oxford（牛津大学计算机科学系）；Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School（哈佛医学院布莱根妇女医院）；Cancer Data Science, Dana Farber Cancer Institute（丹娜-法伯癌症研究所癌症数据科学部）；Cancer Program, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT（哈佛-麻省理工学院布罗德研究所癌症项目）；Institute for Systems and Robotics, University of Coimbra（科英布拉大学系统与机器人研究所）；Faculty of Medicine, Clinical Academic Center of Coimbra, University of Coimbra（科英布拉大学科英布拉临床学术中心医学院）；Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University（约翰霍普金斯大学生物医学工程系）
Deep learning techniques hold promise to develop dense topography reconstruction and pose estimation methods for endoscopic videos. However, currently available datasets do not support effective quantitative benchmarking. In this paper, we introduce a comprehensive endoscopic SLAM dataset consisting of 3D point cloud data for six porcine organs, capsule and standard endoscopy recordings as well as synthetically generated data. A Panda robotic arm, two commercially available capsule endoscopes, two conventional endoscopes with different camera properties, and two high precision 3D scanners were…
EndoGMDE: Generalizable Monocular Depth Estimation with Mixture of Low-Rank Experts for Diverse Endoscopic Scenes
Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学电子工程系）；College of Biomedical Engineering, Fudan University（复旦大学生物医学工程学院）；Shanghai Key laboratory of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention（上海医学影像计算与计算机辅助手术重点实验室）；ENT Institute and Department of Otolaryngology, Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University（复旦大学眼耳鼻喉科医院耳鼻喉科及耳鼻喉科研究所）
Endo3R: Unified Online Reconstruction from Dynamic Monocular Endoscopic Video
The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；Hong Kong Center for Logistics Robotics（香港物流机器人中心）；Johns Hopkins University（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学）；Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）
EndoSfM3D: Learning to 3D Reconstruct Any Endoscopic Surgery Scene using Self-supervised Foundation Model
UCL Hawkes Institute（UCL哈维斯研究所）；Department of Medical Physics（医学物理系）；Biomedical Engineering, University College London, UK（生物医学工程，伦敦大学学院，英国）；Division of Informatics, Imaging and Data Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK（信息学、成像与数据科学部门，曼彻斯特大学，曼彻斯特，英国）
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati（印度理工学院古瓦哈蒂分校）；Chubu University（中部大学）
A deep learning-based monocular depth estimation (MDE) technique is proposed for selection of most informative frames (key frames) of an endoscopic video. In most of the cases, ground truth depth maps of polyps are not readily available and that is why the transfer learning approach is adopted in our method. An endoscopic modalities generally capture thousands of frames. In this scenario, it is quite important to discard low-quality and clinically irrelevant frames of an endoscopic video while the most informative frames should be retained for clinical diagnosis. In this view, a key-frame sele…
The Johns Hopkins University（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学）；Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions（约翰斯·霍普金斯医疗机构）
We present a self-supervised approach to training convolutional neural networks for dense depth estimation from monocular endoscopy data without a priori modeling of anatomy or shading. Our method only requires sequential data from monocular endoscopic videos and a multi-view stereo reconstruction method, e.g. structure from motion, that supervises learning in a sparse but accurate manner. Consequently, our method requires neither manual interaction, such as scaling or labeling, nor patient CT in the training and application phases. We demonstrate the performance of our method on sinus endosco…
4D Monocular Surgical Reconstruction under Arbitrary Camera Motions
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering（机械与自动化工程系）；T Stone Robotics Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong（T Stone机器人研究院，香港中文大学，香港）；Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China（沈阳自动化研究所，中国科学院，沈阳，中国）；State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Shenyang, China（机器人与智能系统国家重点实验室，中国，沈阳）；School of Integrated Circuits, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China（集成电路学院，上海交通大学，中国，上海）；School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China（自动化与智能感知学院，上海交通大学，中国，上海）；Key Laboratory of System Control and Information Processing, Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai, China（系统控制与信息处理重点实验室，中国教育部，中国，上海）
Recently, self-supervised learning technology has been applied to calculate depth and ego-motion from monocular videos, achieving remarkable performance in autonomous driving scenarios. One widely adopted assumption of depth and ego-motion self-supervised learning is that the image brightness remains constant within nearby frames. Unfortunately, the endoscopic scene does not meet this assumption because there are severe brightness fluctuations induced by illumination variations, non-Lambertian reflections and interreflections during data collection, and these brightness fluctuations inevitably…
DARES: Depth Anything in Robotic Endoscopic Surgery with Self-supervised Vector-LoRA of the Foundation Model
Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS)（惠康/英国工程与物理科学研究委员会介入与外科科学中心（WEISS））；University College London（伦敦大学学院）；Politecnico di Milano（米兰理工大学）；Centre for Medical Image Computing（医学影像计算中心）
Intelligent Systems Lab, Intel Labs（英特尔实验室智能系统实验室）；Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, ETH Zürich（苏黎世联邦理工学院大地测量与摄影测量研究所）
The success of monocular depth estimation relies on large and diverse training sets. Due to the challenges associated with acquiring dense ground-truth depth across different environments at scale, a number of datasets with distinct characteristics and biases have emerged. We develop tools that enable mixing multiple datasets during training, even if their annotations are incompatible. In particular, we propose a robust training objective that is invariant to changes in depth range and scale, advocate the use of principled multi-objective learning to combine data from different sources, and hi…
A geometry-aware deep network for depth estimation in monocular endoscopy
Northeastern University（东北大学）；Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院沈阳自动化研究所）；Institutes for Robotics and Intelligent Manufacturing, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院机器人与智能制造创新研究院）；Beihang University（北京航空航天大学）；General Hospital of Northern Theater Command（北部战区总医院）
Nagoya University（名古屋大学）；Kyoto Second Red Cross Hospital（京都第二红十字医院）；Sapporo-Minami-Sanjo Hospital（札幌南三条医院）；Sapporo-Kosei General Hospital（札幌厚生综合医院）；Keiwakai Nishioka Hospital（惠和会西冈医院）；National Institute of Informatics（国立信息学研究所）
We propose a depth estimation method from a single-shot monocular endoscopic image using Lambertian surface translation by domain adaptation and depth estimation using multi-scale edge loss. We employ a two-step estimation process including Lambertian surface translation from unpaired data and depth estimation. The texture and specular reflection on the surface of an organ reduce the accuracy of depth estimations. We apply Lambertian surface translation to an endoscopic image to remove these texture and reflections. Then, we estimate the depth by using a fully convolutional network (FCN). Duri…
EndoMatcher: Generalizable Endoscopic Image Matcher via Multi-Domain Pre-training for Robot-Assisted Surgery
State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（多模态人工智能系统国家重点实验室，自动化研究所，中国科学院）；School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（人工智能学院，中国科学院大学）；Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学附属第一医院呼吸与危重症医学科）；Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation（香港创新科技署）；Centre of AI and Robotics, Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation（人工智能与机器人中心，香港创新科技署）
MonoMobility: Zero-Shot 3D Mobility Analysis from Monocular Videos
National University of Defense Technology（国防科技大学）；Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学）；College of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University（西南大学计算机与信息科学学院）
Johns Hopkins University（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学）；Philips Research（飞利浦研究院）；Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions（约翰斯·霍普金斯医疗机构）；Facebook（脸书）
We present a self-supervised approach to training convolutional neural networks for dense depth estimation from monocular endoscopy data without a priori modeling of anatomy or shading. Our method only requires monocular endoscopic videos and a multi-view stereo method, e.g., structure from motion, to supervise learning in a sparse manner. Consequently, our method requires neither manual labeling nor patient computed tomography (CT) scan in the training and application phases. In a cross-patient experiment using CT scans as groundtruth, the proposed method achieved submillimeter mean residual …
Bournemouth University（伯恩茅斯大学）；University of Chester（切斯特大学）；University of Bradford（布拉德福德大学）
One of the major challenges in Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) such as laparoscopy is the lack of depth perception. In recent years, laparoscopic scene tracking and surface reconstruction has been a focus of investigation to provide rich additional information to aid the surgical process and compensate for the depth perception issue. However, robust 3D surface reconstruction and augmented reality with depth perception on the reconstructed scene are yet to be reported. This paper presents our work in this area. First, we adopt a state-of-the-art visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SL…
