Event-Level Detection of Surgical Instrument Handovers in Videos with Interpretable Vision Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07577v1
• Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:31:28 GMT
• Title: Event-Level Detection of Surgical Instrument Handovers in Videos with Interpretable Vision Models
• Abstract summary: We propose a vision framework for event-level detection and direction classification of instrument handovers in surgical videos.<n>A unified multi-task formulation jointly predicts handover occurrence and interaction direction.<n>Experiments on a dataset of kidney transplant procedures demonstrate strong performance.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Reliable monitoring of surgical instrument exchanges is essential for maintaining procedural efficiency and patient safety in the operating room. Automatic detection of instrument handovers in intraoperative video remains challenging due to frequent occlusions, background clutter, and the temporally evolving nature of interaction events. We propose a spatiotemporal vision framework for event-level detection and direction classification of surgical instrument handovers in surgical videos. The model combines a Vision Transformer (ViT) backbone for spatial feature extraction with a unidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network for temporal aggregation. A unified multi-task formulation jointly predicts handover occurrence and interaction direction, enabling consistent modeling of transfer dynamics while avoiding error propagation typical of cascaded pipelines. Predicted confidence scores form a temporal signal over the video, from which discrete handover events are identified via peak detection. Experiments on a dataset of kidney transplant procedures demonstrate strong performance, achieving an F1-score of 0.84 for handover detection and a mean F1-score of 0.72 for direction classification, outperforming both a single-task variant and a VideoMamba-based baseline for direction prediction while maintaining comparable detection performance. To improve interpretability, we employ Layer-CAM attribution to visualize spatial regions driving model decisions, highlighting hand-instrument interaction cues.

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