Rethinking Anticipation Tasks: Uncertainty-aware Anticipation of Sparse Surgical Instrument Usage for Context-aware Assistance

07/01/2020
by   Dominik Rivoir, et al.
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Intra-operative anticipation of instrument usage is a necessary component for context-aware assistance in surgery, e.g. for instrument preparation or semi-automation of robotic tasks. However, the sparsity of instrument occurrences in long videos poses a challenge. Current approaches are limited as they assume knowledge on the timing of future actions or require dense temporal segmentations during training and inference. We propose a novel learning task for anticipation of instrument usage in laparoscopic videos that overcomes these limitations. During training, only sparse instrument annotations are required and inference is done solely on image data. We train a probabilistic model to address the uncertainty associated with future events. Our approach outperforms several baselines and is competitive to a variant using richer annotations. We demonstrate the model's ability to quantify task-relevant uncertainties. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to propose a method for anticipating instruments in surgery.

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