SAM Meets Robotic Surgery: An Empirical Study on Generalization, Robustness and Adaptation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07156v1
• Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 14:09:41 GMT
• Title: SAM Meets Robotic Surgery: An Empirical Study on Generalization, Robustness and Adaptation
• Authors: An Wang, Mobarakol Islam, Mengya Xu, Yang Zhang, Hongliang Ren
• Abstract summary: The Segment Anything Model (SAM) serves as a fundamental model for semantic segmentation. We examine SAM's robustness and zero-shot generalizability in the field of robotic surgery.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The Segment Anything Model (SAM) serves as a fundamental model for semantic segmentation and demonstrates remarkable generalization capabilities across a wide range of downstream scenarios. In this empirical study, we examine SAM's robustness and zero-shot generalizability in the field of robotic surgery. We comprehensively explore different scenarios, including prompted and unprompted situations, bounding box and points-based prompt approaches, as well as the ability to generalize under corruptions and perturbations at five severity levels. Additionally, we compare the performance of SAM with state-of-the-art supervised models. We conduct all the experiments with two well-known robotic instrument segmentation datasets from MICCAI EndoVis 2017 and 2018 challenges. Our extensive evaluation results reveal that although SAM shows remarkable zero-shot generalization ability with bounding box prompts, it struggles to segment the whole instrument with point-based prompts and unprompted settings. Furthermore, our qualitative figures demonstrate that the model either failed to predict certain parts of the instrument mask (e.g., jaws, wrist) or predicted parts of the instrument as wrong classes in the scenario of overlapping instruments within the same bounding box or with the point-based prompt. In fact, SAM struggles to identify instruments in complex surgical scenarios characterized by the presence of blood, reflection, blur, and shade. Additionally, SAM is insufficiently robust to maintain high performance when subjected to various forms of data corruption. We also attempt to fine-tune SAM using Low-rank Adaptation (LoRA) and propose SurgicalSAM, which shows the capability in class-wise mask prediction without prompt. Therefore, we can argue that, without further domain-specific fine-tuning, SAM is not ready for downstream surgical tasks.

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