EndoVLA: Dual-Phase Vision-Language-Action Model for Autonomous Tracking in Endoscopy
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| author | Ng, Chi Kit Bai, Long Wang, Guankun Wang, Yupeng Gao, Huxin Yuan, Kun Jin, Chenhan Zeng, Tieyong Ren, Hongliang |
| author_facet | Ng, Chi Kit Bai, Long Wang, Guankun Wang, Yupeng Gao, Huxin Yuan, Kun Jin, Chenhan Zeng, Tieyong Ren, Hongliang |
| contents | In endoscopic procedures, autonomous tracking of abnormal regions and following circumferential cutting markers can significantly reduce the cognitive burden on endoscopists. However, conventional model-based pipelines are fragile for each component (e.g., detection, motion planning) requires manual tuning and struggles to incorporate high-level endoscopic intent, leading to poor generalization across diverse scenes. Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, which integrate visual perception, language grounding, and motion planning within an end-to-end framework, offer a promising alternative by semantically adapting to surgeon prompts without manual recalibration. Despite their potential, applying VLA models to robotic endoscopy presents unique challenges due to the complex and dynamic anatomical environments of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. To address this, we introduce EndoVLA, designed specifically for continuum robots in GI interventions. Given endoscopic images and surgeon-issued tracking prompts, EndoVLA performs three core tasks: (1) polyp tracking, (2) delineation and following of abnormal mucosal regions, and (3) adherence to circular markers during circumferential cutting. To tackle data scarcity and domain shifts, we propose a dual-phase strategy comprising supervised fine-tuning on our EndoVLA-Motion dataset and reinforcement fine-tuning with task-aware rewards. Our approach significantly improves tracking performance in endoscopy and enables zero-shot generalization in diverse scenes and complex sequential tasks. |
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| spellingShingle | EndoVLA: Dual-Phase Vision-Language-Action Model for Autonomous Tracking in Endoscopy Ng, Chi Kit Bai, Long Wang, Guankun Wang, Yupeng Gao, Huxin Yuan, Kun Jin, Chenhan Zeng, Tieyong Ren, Hongliang Robotics Artificial Intelligence In endoscopic procedures, autonomous tracking of abnormal regions and following circumferential cutting markers can significantly reduce the cognitive burden on endoscopists. However, conventional model-based pipelines are fragile for each component (e.g., detection, motion planning) requires manual tuning and struggles to incorporate high-level endoscopic intent, leading to poor generalization across diverse scenes. Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, which integrate visual perception, language grounding, and motion planning within an end-to-end framework, offer a promising alternative by semantically adapting to surgeon prompts without manual recalibration. Despite their potential, applying VLA models to robotic endoscopy presents unique challenges due to the complex and dynamic anatomical environments of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. To address this, we introduce EndoVLA, designed specifically for continuum robots in GI interventions. Given endoscopic images and surgeon-issued tracking prompts, EndoVLA performs three core tasks: (1) polyp tracking, (2) delineation and following of abnormal mucosal regions, and (3) adherence to circular markers during circumferential cutting. To tackle data scarcity and domain shifts, we propose a dual-phase strategy comprising supervised fine-tuning on our EndoVLA-Motion dataset and reinforcement fine-tuning with task-aware rewards. Our approach significantly improves tracking performance in endoscopy and enables zero-shot generalization in diverse scenes and complex sequential tasks. |
| title | EndoVLA: Dual-Phase Vision-Language-Action Model for Autonomous Tracking in Endoscopy |
| topic | Robotics Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15206 |