Procedure-Aware Surgical Video-language Pretraining with Hierarchical Knowledge Augmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00263v1
• Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:21:05 GMT
• Title: Procedure-Aware Surgical Video-language Pretraining with Hierarchical Knowledge Augmentation
• Authors: Kun Yuan, Vinkle Srivastav, Nassir Navab, Nicolas Padoy,
• Abstract summary: Surgical video-language pretraining faces unique challenges due to the knowledge domain gap and the scarcity of multi-modal data. We propose a hierarchical knowledge augmentation approach and a novel Procedure-Encoded Surgical Knowledge-Augmented Video-Language Pretraining framework to tackle these issues.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Surgical video-language pretraining (VLP) faces unique challenges due to the knowledge domain gap and the scarcity of multi-modal data. This study aims to bridge the gap by addressing issues regarding textual information loss in surgical lecture videos and the spatial-temporal challenges of surgical VLP. We propose a hierarchical knowledge augmentation approach and a novel Procedure-Encoded Surgical Knowledge-Augmented Video-Language Pretraining (PeskaVLP) framework to tackle these issues. The knowledge augmentation uses large language models (LLM) for refining and enriching surgical concepts, thus providing comprehensive language supervision and reducing the risk of overfitting. PeskaVLP combines language supervision with visual self-supervision, constructing hard negative samples and employing a Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) based loss function to effectively comprehend the cross-modal procedural alignment. Extensive experiments on multiple public surgical scene understanding and cross-modal retrieval datasets show that our proposed method significantly improves zero-shot transferring performance and offers a generalist visual representation for further advancements in surgical scene understanding.

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