Conformal forecasting for surgical instrument trajectory

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04191v2
• Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:10:02 GMT
• Title: Conformal forecasting for surgical instrument trajectory
• Authors: Sara Sangalli, Gary Sarwin, Ertunc Erdil, Alessandro Carretta, Victor Staartjes, Carlo Serra, Ender Konukoglu,
• Abstract summary: We explore the application of conformal prediction and conformalized quantile regression to estimate uncertainty in forecasting surgical instrument motion.<n>To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study applying conformal prediction to surgical guidance.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Forecasting surgical instrument trajectories and predicting the next surgical action recently started to attract attention from the research community. Both these tasks are crucial for automation and assistance in endoscopy surgery. Given the safety-critical nature of these tasks, reliable uncertainty quantification is essential. Conformal prediction is a fast-growing and widely recognized framework for uncertainty estimation in machine learning and computer vision, offering distribution-free, theoretically valid prediction intervals. In this work, we explore the application of standard conformal prediction and conformalized quantile regression to estimate uncertainty in forecasting surgical instrument motion, i.e., predicting direction and magnitude of surgical instruments' future motion. We analyze and compare their coverage and interval sizes, assessing the impact of multiple hypothesis testing and correction methods. Additionally, we show how these techniques can be employed to produce useful uncertainty heatmaps. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study applying conformal prediction to surgical guidance, marking an initial step toward constructing principled prediction intervals with formal coverage guarantees in this domain.

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