Paper Info
Title
Endoscopic Vision Augmentation Using Multiscale Bilateral-Weighted Retinex for Robotic Surgery.
Abstract
Endoscopic vision plays a significant role in minimally invasive surgical procedures. The visibility and maintenance of such direct <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">in situ</italic> vision is paramount not only for safety by preventing inadvertent injury but also to improve precision and reduce operating time. Unfortunately, the endoscopic vision is unavoidably degraded due to the illumination variations during surgery. This paper aims to restore or augment such degraded visualization and quantitatively evaluate it during robotic surgery. A multiscale bilateral-weighted retinex method is proposed to remove non-uniform and highly directional illumination and enhance surgical vision, while an objective no-reference image visibility assessment method is defined in terms of sharpness, naturalness, and contrast, to quantitatively and objectively evaluate the endoscopic visualization on surgical video sequences. The methods were validated on surgical data, with the experimental results showing that our method outperforms existent retinex approaches. In particular, the combined visibility was improved from 0.81 to 1.06, while three surgeons generally agreed that the results were restored with much better visibility.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TMI.2019.2916101
IEEE transactions on medical imaging
Keywords
Field
DocType
Lighting,Image color analysis,Surgery,Robots,Image restoration,Laparoscopes,Endoscopes
Computer vision,Color constancy,Visibility,Operating time,Visualization,Robotic surgery,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
38
12
0278-0062
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiongbiao Luo112422.22
Hui-Qing Zeng201.69
Ying Wan322.07
Xiao-Bin Zhang400.68
Yan-Ping Du500.68
Terry Peters6929.55