Multimodal Graph Representation Learning for Robust Surgical Workflow Recognition with Adversarial Feature Disentanglement

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Main Authors: Bai, Long, Ma, Boyi, Wang, Ruohan, Wang, Guankun, Cui, Beilei, Jiang, Zhongliang, Islam, Mobarakol, Min, Zhe, Lai, Jiewen, Navab, Nassir, Ren, Hongliang
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author Bai, Long
Ma, Boyi
Wang, Ruohan
Wang, Guankun
Cui, Beilei
Jiang, Zhongliang
Islam, Mobarakol
Min, Zhe
Lai, Jiewen
Navab, Nassir
Ren, Hongliang
author_facet Bai, Long
Ma, Boyi
Wang, Ruohan
Wang, Guankun
Cui, Beilei
Jiang, Zhongliang
Islam, Mobarakol
Min, Zhe
Lai, Jiewen
Navab, Nassir
Ren, Hongliang
contents Surgical workflow recognition is vital for automating tasks, supporting decision-making, and training novice surgeons, ultimately improving patient safety and standardizing procedures. However, data corruption can lead to performance degradation due to issues like occlusion from bleeding or smoke in surgical scenes and problems with data storage and transmission. In this case, we explore a robust graph-based multimodal approach to integrating vision and kinematic data to enhance accuracy and reliability. Vision data captures dynamic surgical scenes, while kinematic data provides precise movement information, overcoming limitations of visual recognition under adverse conditions. We propose a multimodal Graph Representation network with Adversarial feature Disentanglement (GRAD) for robust surgical workflow recognition in challenging scenarios with domain shifts or corrupted data. Specifically, we introduce a Multimodal Disentanglement Graph Network that captures fine-grained visual information while explicitly modeling the complex relationships between vision and kinematic embeddings through graph-based message modeling. To align feature spaces across modalities, we propose a Vision-Kinematic Adversarial framework that leverages adversarial training to reduce modality gaps and improve feature consistency. Furthermore, we design a Contextual Calibrated Decoder, incorporating temporal and contextual priors to enhance robustness against domain shifts and corrupted data. Extensive comparative and ablation experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our model and proposed modules. Moreover, our robustness experiments show that our method effectively handles data corruption during storage and transmission, exhibiting excellent stability and robustness. Our approach aims to advance automated surgical workflow recognition, addressing the complexities and dynamism inherent in surgical procedures.
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spellingShingle Multimodal Graph Representation Learning for Robust Surgical Workflow Recognition with Adversarial Feature Disentanglement
Bai, Long
Ma, Boyi
Wang, Ruohan
Wang, Guankun
Cui, Beilei
Jiang, Zhongliang
Islam, Mobarakol
Min, Zhe
Lai, Jiewen
Navab, Nassir
Ren, Hongliang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Surgical workflow recognition is vital for automating tasks, supporting decision-making, and training novice surgeons, ultimately improving patient safety and standardizing procedures. However, data corruption can lead to performance degradation due to issues like occlusion from bleeding or smoke in surgical scenes and problems with data storage and transmission. In this case, we explore a robust graph-based multimodal approach to integrating vision and kinematic data to enhance accuracy and reliability. Vision data captures dynamic surgical scenes, while kinematic data provides precise movement information, overcoming limitations of visual recognition under adverse conditions. We propose a multimodal Graph Representation network with Adversarial feature Disentanglement (GRAD) for robust surgical workflow recognition in challenging scenarios with domain shifts or corrupted data. Specifically, we introduce a Multimodal Disentanglement Graph Network that captures fine-grained visual information while explicitly modeling the complex relationships between vision and kinematic embeddings through graph-based message modeling. To align feature spaces across modalities, we propose a Vision-Kinematic Adversarial framework that leverages adversarial training to reduce modality gaps and improve feature consistency. Furthermore, we design a Contextual Calibrated Decoder, incorporating temporal and contextual priors to enhance robustness against domain shifts and corrupted data. Extensive comparative and ablation experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our model and proposed modules. Moreover, our robustness experiments show that our method effectively handles data corruption during storage and transmission, exhibiting excellent stability and robustness. Our approach aims to advance automated surgical workflow recognition, addressing the complexities and dynamism inherent in surgical procedures.
title Multimodal Graph Representation Learning for Robust Surgical Workflow Recognition with Adversarial Feature Disentanglement
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01766