Summary of Rethinking Low-quality Optical Flow in Unsupervised Surgical Instrument Segmentation, by Peiran Wu et al.
Rethinking Low-quality Optical Flow in Unsupervised Surgical Instrument Segmentation
by Peiran Wu, Yang Liu, Jiayu Huo, Gongyu Zhang, Christos Bergeles, Rachel Sparks, Prokar Dasgupta, Alejandro Granados, Sebastien Ourselin
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Mar 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 paper addresses the challenge of unsupervised surgical instrument segmentation in robot-assisted surgeries, where motion cues are crucial but often unreliable due to low-quality optical flow. The authors propose a three-pronged approach to enhance model performance: extracting boundaries from optical flow, discarding inferior frames, and fine-tuning with variable frame rates. Evaluations on the EndoVis2017 VOS dataset and Endovis2017 Challenge dataset demonstrate promising results, achieving mean Intersection-over-Union (mIoU) of 0.75 and 0.72, respectively. The approach has potential to reduce manual annotations in clinical environments. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps make robot-assisted surgeries better by automatically identifying surgical tools in videos without needing people to label each frame. It’s hard because the video quality isn’t great, making it tricky for computers to figure out what’s happening. The solution is a three-step process that improves how well the computer can do this task. They tested their idea on two sets of data and got good results. This could make surgeries safer and more efficient. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Optical flow » Unsupervised
