@inproceedings{8d797e894b8a4cea9ae420fd291331ec,
title = "TeCNO: Surgical Phase Recognition with Multi-stage Temporal Convolutional Networks",
abstract = "Automatic surgical phase recognition is a challenging and crucial task with the potential to improve patient safety and become an integral part of intra-operative decision-support systems. In this paper, we propose, for the first time in workflow analysis, a Multi-Stage Temporal Convolutional Network (MS-TCN) that performs hierarchical prediction refinement for surgical phase recognition. Causal, dilated convolutions allow for a large receptive field and online inference with smooth predictions even during ambiguous transitions. Our method is thoroughly evaluated on two datasets of laparoscopic cholecystectomy videos with and without the use of additional surgical tool information. Outperforming various state-of-the-art LSTM approaches, we verify the suitability of the proposed causal MS-TCN for surgical phase recognition.",
keywords = "Cholecystectomy, Endoscopic videos, Surgical phase recognition, Surgical workflow, Temporal Convolutional Networks",
author = "Tobias Czempiel and Magdalini Paschali and Matthias Keicher and Walter Simson and Hubertus Feussner and Kim, \{Seong Tae\} and Nassir Navab",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; 23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2020 ; Conference date: 04-10-2020 Through 08-10-2020",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-59716-0\_33",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030597153",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "343--352",
editor = "Martel, \{Anne L.\} and Purang Abolmaesumi and Danail Stoyanov and Diana Mateus and Zuluaga, \{Maria A.\} and Zhou, \{S. Kevin\} and Daniel Racoceanu and Leo Joskowicz",
booktitle = "Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2020 - 23rd International Conference, Proceedings",
}