bibtext: @InProceedings{ Xia_ANew_MICCAI2024,
                   author = { Xia, Wenyao and Fan, Victoria and Peters, Terry and Chen, Elvis C. S. },
                   title = { { A New Benchmark In Vivo Paired Dataset for Laparoscopic Image De-smoking } },
                   booktitle = {Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention -- MICCAI 2024},
                   year = {2024},
                   publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
                   volume = { LNCS 15001 },
                   month = {October},
                   pages = { pending },
                }
abstract: The single greatest obstacle in developing effective algorithms for removing surgical smoke in laparoscopic surgery is the lack of a paired dataset featuring real smoky and smoke-free surgical scenes. Consequently, existing de-smoking algorithms are developed and evaluated based on atmospheric scattering models, synthetic data, and non-reference image enhancement metrics, which do not adequately capture the complexity and essence of in vivo surgical scenes with smoke. To bridge this gap, we propose creating a paired dataset by identifying video sequences with relatively stationary scenes from existing laparoscopic surgical recordings where smoke emerges. In addition, we developed an approach to facilitate robust motion tracking through smoke to compensate for patients’ involuntary movements. As a result, we obtained 21 video sequences from 63 laparoscopic prostatectomy procedure recordings, comprising 961 pairs of smoky images and their corresponding smoke-free ground truth. Using this unique dataset, we compared a representative set of current de-smoking methods, confirming their efficacy and revealing their limitations, thereby offering insights for future directions. The dataset is available at https://github.com/wxia43/DesmokeData.
title: A New Benchmark In Vivo Paired Dataset for Laparoscopic Image De-smoking
authors: Xia, Wenyao Fan, Victoria Peters, Terry Chen, Elvis C. S.