Summary of Procedure-aware Surgical Video-language Pretraining with Hierarchical Knowledge Augmentation, by Kun Yuan et al.
Procedure-Aware Surgical Video-language Pretraining with Hierarchical Knowledge Augmentation
by Kun Yuan, Vinkle Srivastav, Nassir Navab, Nicolas Padoy
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This study addresses the challenges of surgical video-language pretraining (VLP) by proposing a hierarchical knowledge augmentation approach and a novel Procedure-Encoded Surgical Knowledge-Augmented Video-Language Pretraining (PeskaVLP) framework. The method uses large language models to refine and enrich surgical concepts, reducing the risk of overfitting. PeskaVLP combines language supervision with visual self-supervision using Dynamic Time Warping-based loss function to comprehend cross-modal procedural alignment. Experimental results on multiple public datasets show significant improvements in zero-shot transferring performance and offer a generalist visual representation for further advancements in surgical scene understanding. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Surgical video-language pretraining (VLP) is trying to bridge the gap between language and visuals in medical videos. The problem is that these videos often lose important information when translated into text, making it hard for AI models to learn from them. This study proposes a new way to tackle this issue by using large language models to make the text more accurate and comprehensive. They also combine this with visual self-supervision to help the model understand how procedures are performed in videos. The results show that their method is better at transferring what it has learned to new situations, which could lead to improvements in understanding medical scenes. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Loss function » Overfitting » Pretraining » Scene understanding » Zero shot
