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Autori principali: Wang, Hongyu, Long, Yonghao, Chen, Yueyao, Yip, Hon-Chi, Scheppach, Markus, Chiu, Philip Wai-Yan, Yam, Yeung, Meng, Helen Mei-Ling, Dou, Qi
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04716
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author Wang, Hongyu
Long, Yonghao
Chen, Yueyao
Yip, Hon-Chi
Scheppach, Markus
Chiu, Philip Wai-Yan
Yam, Yeung
Meng, Helen Mei-Ling
Dou, Qi
author_facet Wang, Hongyu
Long, Yonghao
Chen, Yueyao
Yip, Hon-Chi
Scheppach, Markus
Chiu, Philip Wai-Yan
Yam, Yeung
Meng, Helen Mei-Ling
Dou, Qi
contents Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD) is a well-established technique for removing epithelial lesions. Predicting dissection trajectories in ESD videos offers significant potential for enhancing surgical skill training and simplifying the learning process, yet this area remains underexplored. While imitation learning has shown promise in acquiring skills from expert demonstrations, challenges persist in handling uncertain future movements, learning geometric symmetries, and generalizing to diverse surgical scenarios. To address these, we introduce a novel approach: Implicit Diffusion Policy with Equivariant Representations for Imitation Learning (iDPOE). Our method models expert behavior through a joint state action distribution, capturing the stochastic nature of dissection trajectories and enabling robust visual representation learning across various endoscopic views. By incorporating a diffusion model into policy learning, iDPOE ensures efficient training and sampling, leading to more accurate predictions and better generalization. Additionally, we enhance the model's ability to generalize to geometric symmetries by embedding equivariance into the learning process. To address state mismatches, we develop a forward-process guided action inference strategy for conditional sampling. Using an ESD video dataset of nearly 2000 clips, experimental results show that our approach surpasses state-of-the-art methods, both explicit and implicit, in trajectory prediction. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first application of imitation learning to surgical skill development for dissection trajectory prediction.
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spellingShingle Learning dissection trajectories from expert surgical videos via imitation learning with equivariant diffusion
Wang, Hongyu
Long, Yonghao
Chen, Yueyao
Yip, Hon-Chi
Scheppach, Markus
Chiu, Philip Wai-Yan
Yam, Yeung
Meng, Helen Mei-Ling
Dou, Qi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD) is a well-established technique for removing epithelial lesions. Predicting dissection trajectories in ESD videos offers significant potential for enhancing surgical skill training and simplifying the learning process, yet this area remains underexplored. While imitation learning has shown promise in acquiring skills from expert demonstrations, challenges persist in handling uncertain future movements, learning geometric symmetries, and generalizing to diverse surgical scenarios. To address these, we introduce a novel approach: Implicit Diffusion Policy with Equivariant Representations for Imitation Learning (iDPOE). Our method models expert behavior through a joint state action distribution, capturing the stochastic nature of dissection trajectories and enabling robust visual representation learning across various endoscopic views. By incorporating a diffusion model into policy learning, iDPOE ensures efficient training and sampling, leading to more accurate predictions and better generalization. Additionally, we enhance the model's ability to generalize to geometric symmetries by embedding equivariance into the learning process. To address state mismatches, we develop a forward-process guided action inference strategy for conditional sampling. Using an ESD video dataset of nearly 2000 clips, experimental results show that our approach surpasses state-of-the-art methods, both explicit and implicit, in trajectory prediction. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first application of imitation learning to surgical skill development for dissection trajectory prediction.
title Learning dissection trajectories from expert surgical videos via imitation learning with equivariant diffusion
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04716