Title
Generative Smoke Removal.
Abstract
In minimally invasive surgery, the use of tissue dissection tools causes smoke, which inevitably degrades the image quality. This could reduce the visibility of the operation field for surgeons and introduces errors for the computer vision algorithms used in surgical navigation systems. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for computational smoke removal using supervised image-to-image translation. We demonstrate that straightforward application of existing generative algorithms allows removing smoke but decreases image quality and introduces synthetic noise (grid-structure). Thus, we propose to solve this issue by modification of GAN's architecture and adding perceptual image quality metric to the loss function. Obtained results demonstrate that proposed method efficiently removes smoke as well as preserves perceptually sufficient image quality.
Year
Venue
DocType
2019
CoRR
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1902.00311
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Oleksii Sidorov100.34
Congcong Wang263.82
Faouzi Alaya Cheikh316838.47