Watch and Learn: Leveraging Expert Knowledge and Language for Surgical Video Understanding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11392v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:36:13 GMT
• Title: Watch and Learn: Leveraging Expert Knowledge and Language for Surgical Video Understanding
• Authors: David Gastager, Ghazal Ghazaei, Constantin Patsch,
• Abstract summary: The lack of datasets hinders the development of accurate and comprehensive workflow analysis solutions.<n>We introduce a novel approach for addressing the sparsity and heterogeneity of data inspired by the human learning procedure of watching experts and understanding their explanations.<n>We present the first comprehensive solution for dense video captioning (DVC) of surgical videos, addressing this task despite the absence of existing datasets in the surgical domain.
• Score: 1.024113475677323
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Automated surgical workflow analysis is crucial for education, research, and clinical decision-making, but the lack of annotated datasets hinders the development of accurate and comprehensive workflow analysis solutions. We introduce a novel approach for addressing the sparsity and heterogeneity of annotated training data inspired by the human learning procedure of watching experts and understanding their explanations. Our method leverages a video-language model trained on alignment, denoising, and generative tasks to learn short-term spatio-temporal and multimodal representations. A task-specific temporal model is then used to capture relationships across entire videos. To achieve comprehensive video-language understanding in the surgical domain, we introduce a data collection and filtering strategy to construct a large-scale pretraining dataset from educational YouTube videos. We then utilize parameter-efficient fine-tuning by projecting downstream task annotations from publicly available surgical datasets into the language domain. Extensive experiments in two surgical domains demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, with performance improvements of up to 7% in phase segmentation tasks, 8% in zero-shot phase segmentation, and comparable capabilities to fully-supervised models in few-shot settings. Harnessing our model's capabilities for long-range temporal localization and text generation, we present the first comprehensive solution for dense video captioning (DVC) of surgical videos, addressing this task despite the absence of existing DVC datasets in the surgical domain. We introduce a novel approach to surgical workflow understanding that leverages video-language pretraining, large-scale video pretraining, and optimized fine-tuning. Our method improves performance over state-of-the-art techniques and enables new downstream tasks for surgical video understanding.

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