ColonSplat: Reconstruction of Peristaltic Motion in Colonoscopy with Dynamic Gaussian Splatting

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Autori principali: Smolak-Dyżewska, Weronika, Kaleta, Joanna, Dall'Alba, Diego, Spurek, Przemysław
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author Smolak-Dyżewska, Weronika
Kaleta, Joanna
Dall'Alba, Diego
Spurek, Przemysław
author_facet Smolak-Dyżewska, Weronika
Kaleta, Joanna
Dall'Alba, Diego
Spurek, Przemysław
contents Accurate 3D reconstruction of colonoscopy data, accounting for complex peristaltic movements, is crucial for advanced surgical navigation and retrospective diagnostics. While recent novel view synthesis and 3D reconstruction methods have demonstrated remarkable success in general endoscopic scenarios, they struggle in the highly constrained environment of the colon. Due to the limited field of view of a camera moving through an actively deforming tubular structure, existing endoscopic methods reconstruct the colon appearance only for initial camera trajectory. However, the underlying anatomy remains largely static; instead of updating Gaussians' spatial coordinates (xyz), these methods encode deformation through either rotation, scale or opacity adjustments. In this paper, we first present a benchmark analysis of state-of-the-art dynamic endoscopic methods for realistic colonoscopic scenes, showing that they fail to model true anatomical motion. To enable rigorous evaluation of global reconstruction quality, we introduce DynamicColon, a synthetic dataset with ground-truth point clouds at every timestep. Building on these insights, we propose ColonSplat, a dynamic Gaussian Splatting framework that captures peristaltic-like motion while preserving global geometric consistency, achieving superior geometric fidelity on C3VDv2 and DynamicColon datasets. Project page: https://wmito.github.io/ColonSplat
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spellingShingle ColonSplat: Reconstruction of Peristaltic Motion in Colonoscopy with Dynamic Gaussian Splatting
Smolak-Dyżewska, Weronika
Kaleta, Joanna
Dall'Alba, Diego
Spurek, Przemysław
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Accurate 3D reconstruction of colonoscopy data, accounting for complex peristaltic movements, is crucial for advanced surgical navigation and retrospective diagnostics. While recent novel view synthesis and 3D reconstruction methods have demonstrated remarkable success in general endoscopic scenarios, they struggle in the highly constrained environment of the colon. Due to the limited field of view of a camera moving through an actively deforming tubular structure, existing endoscopic methods reconstruct the colon appearance only for initial camera trajectory. However, the underlying anatomy remains largely static; instead of updating Gaussians' spatial coordinates (xyz), these methods encode deformation through either rotation, scale or opacity adjustments. In this paper, we first present a benchmark analysis of state-of-the-art dynamic endoscopic methods for realistic colonoscopic scenes, showing that they fail to model true anatomical motion. To enable rigorous evaluation of global reconstruction quality, we introduce DynamicColon, a synthetic dataset with ground-truth point clouds at every timestep. Building on these insights, we propose ColonSplat, a dynamic Gaussian Splatting framework that captures peristaltic-like motion while preserving global geometric consistency, achieving superior geometric fidelity on C3VDv2 and DynamicColon datasets. Project page: https://wmito.github.io/ColonSplat
title ColonSplat: Reconstruction of Peristaltic Motion in Colonoscopy with Dynamic Gaussian Splatting
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06860