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Controllable illumination invariant GAN for diverse temporally-consistent surgical video synthesis

Chen, L; Hoque, MI; Min, Z; Clarkson, M; Dowrick, T; (2025) Controllable illumination invariant GAN for diverse temporally-consistent surgical video synthesis. Medical Image Analysis , 105 , Article 103731. 10.1016/j.media.2025.103731.

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Abstract

Surgical video synthesis offers a cost-effective way to expand training data and enhance the performance of machine learning models in computer-assisted surgery. However, existing video translation methods often produce video sequences with large illumination changes across different views, disrupting the temporal consistency of the videos. Additionally, these methods typically synthesize videos with a monotonous style, whereas diverse synthetic data is desired to improve the generalization ability of downstream machine learning models. To address these challenges, we propose a novel Controllable Illumination Invariant Generative Adversarial Network (CIIGAN) for generating diverse, illumination-consistent video sequences. CIIGAN fuses multi-scale illumination-invariant features from a novel controllable illumination-invariant (CII) image space with multi-scale texture-invariant features from self-constructed 3D scenes. The CII image space, along with the 3D scenes, allows CIIGAN to produce diverse and temporally-consistent video or image translations. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CIIGAN achieves more realistic and illumination-consistent translations compared to previous state-of-the-art baselines. Furthermore, the segmentation networks trained on our diverse synthetic data outperform those trained on monotonous synthetic data. Our source code, well-trained models, and 3D simulation scenes are public available at https://github.com/LongChenCV/CIIGAN.

Type: Article
Title: Controllable illumination invariant GAN for diverse temporally-consistent surgical video synthesis
Location: Netherlands
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2025.103731
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2025.103731
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: 3D simulation, Controllable illumination-invariant image space, Surgical video synthesis, Unpaired GAN
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10212109
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