SV-RCNet: Workflow recognition from surgical videos using recurrent convolutional network

Yueming Jin, Qi Dou, Hao Chen, Lequan Yu, Jing Qin, Chi Wing Fu, Pheng Ann Heng

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Abstract

We propose an analysis of surgical videos that is based on a novel recurrent convolutional network (SV-RCNet), specifically for automatic workflow recognition from surgical videos online, which is a key component for developing the context-aware computer-assisted intervention systems. Different from previous methods which harness visual and temporal information separately, the proposed SV-RCNet seamlessly integrates a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a recurrent neural network (RNN) to form a novel recurrent convolutional architecture in order to take full advantages of the complementary information of visual and temporal features learned from surgical videos. We effectively train the SV-RCNet in an end-to-end manner so that the visual representations and sequential dynamics can be jointly optimized in the learning process. In order to produce more discriminative spatio-temporal features, we exploit a deep residual network (ResNet) and a long short term memory (LSTM) network, to extract visual features and temporal dependencies, respectively, and integrate them into the SV-RCNet. Moreover, based on the phase transition-sensitive predictions from the SV-RCNet, we propose a simple yet effective inference scheme, namely the prior knowledge inference (PKI), by leveraging the natural characteristic of surgical video. Such a strategy further improves the consistency of results and largely boosts the recognition performance. Extensive experiments have been conducted with the MICCAI 2016 Modeling and Monitoring of Computer Assisted Interventions Workflow Challenge dataset and Cholec80 dataset to validate SV-RCNet. Our approach not only achieves superior performance on these two datasets but also outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by a significant margin.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1114-1126
Number of pages13
JournalIEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Volume37
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2018

Keywords

  • joint learning of spatio-temporal features
  • long short-term memory
  • Recurrent convolutional network
  • surgical workflow recognition
  • very deep residual network

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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