SAF-IS: a Spatial Annotation Free Framework for Instance Segmentation of Surgical Tools

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.01723v1
• Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2023 17:13:06 GMT
• Title: SAF-IS: a Spatial Annotation Free Framework for Instance Segmentation of Surgical Tools
• Authors: Luca Sestini, Benoit Rosa, Elena De Momi, Giancarlo Ferrigno, Nicolas Padoy
• Abstract summary: We develop a framework for instance segmentation not relying on spatial annotations for training. Our solution only requires binary tool masks, obtainable using recent unsupervised approaches, and binary tool presence labels. We validate our framework on the EndoVis 2017 and 2018 segmentation datasets.
• Score: 10.295921059528636
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Instance segmentation of surgical instruments is a long-standing research problem, crucial for the development of many applications for computer-assisted surgery. This problem is commonly tackled via fully-supervised training of deep learning models, requiring expensive pixel-level annotations to train. In this work, we develop a framework for instance segmentation not relying on spatial annotations for training. Instead, our solution only requires binary tool masks, obtainable using recent unsupervised approaches, and binary tool presence labels, freely obtainable in robot-assisted surgery. Based on the binary mask information, our solution learns to extract individual tool instances from single frames, and to encode each instance into a compact vector representation, capturing its semantic features. Such representations guide the automatic selection of a tiny number of instances (8 only in our experiments), displayed to a human operator for tool-type labelling. The gathered information is finally used to match each training instance with a binary tool presence label, providing an effective supervision signal to train a tool instance classifier. We validate our framework on the EndoVis 2017 and 2018 segmentation datasets. We provide results using binary masks obtained either by manual annotation or as predictions of an unsupervised binary segmentation model. The latter solution yields an instance segmentation approach completely free from spatial annotations, outperforming several state-of-the-art fully-supervised segmentation approaches.

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