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Laparoscopic surgery has a limited field of view. Laser ablation in a laproscopic surgery causes smoke, which inevitably influences the surgeon's visibility. Therefore, it is of vital importance to remove the smoke, such that a clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Congcong Wang , Vivek Sharma , Yu Fan , Faouzi Alaya Cheikh , Azeddine Beghdadi , Ole Jacob Elle , Rainer Stiefelhagen

In laparoscopic surgery, the visibility in the image can be severely degraded by the smoke caused by the $CO_2$ injection, and dissection tools, thus reducing the visibility of organs and tissues. This lack of visibility increases the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Sebastián Salazar-Colores , Hugo Alberto-Moreno , César Javier Ortiz-Echeverri , Gerardo Flores

This paper presents a novel method of smoke removal from the laparoscopic images. Due to the heterogeneous nature of surgical smoke, a two-stage network is proposed to estimate the smoke distribution and reconstruct a clear, smoke-free…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-12 Ziteng Liu , Jiahua Zhu , Bainan Liu , Hao Liu , Wenpeng Gao , Yili Fu

Smoke generated by surgical instruments during laparoscopic surgery can obscure the visual field, impairing surgeons' ability to perform operations accurately and safely. Thus, smoke removal task for laparoscopic images is highly desirable.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Wenhui Chang , Hongming Chen

Laparoscopic surgery uses a thin tube with a camera called a laparoscope, which is inserted into the abdomen through a small incision in the skin during surgery. This allows to a surgeon to see inside of the body without causing significant…

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Oleksii Sidorov , Congcong Wang , Faouzi Alaya Cheikh

Laparoscopic surgeries often suffer from reduced visual clarity due to the presence of surgical smoke originated by surgical instruments, which poses significant challenges for both surgeons and vision based computer-assisted technologies.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Chengyu Yang , Chengjun Liu

Minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery relies heavily on endoscopic imaging, yet surgical smoke produced by electrocautery and vessel-sealing instruments can severely degrade visual perception and hinder vision-based functionalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Jingpei Lu , Fengyi Jiang , Xiaorui Zhang , Lingbo Jin , Omid Mohareri

Electrocautery or lasers will inevitably generate surgical smoke, which hinders the visual guidance of laparoscopic videos for surgical procedures. The surgical smoke can be classified into different types based on its motion patterns,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Qifan Liang , Junlin Li , Zhen Han , Xihao Wang , Zhongyuan Wang , Bin Mei

One image processing application that is very helpful for humans is to improve image quality, poor image quality makes the image more difficult to interpret because the information conveyed by the image is reduced. In the process of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-19 Rini Mayasari , Nono Heryana

During laparoscopic surgery, smoke generated by tissue cauterization degrade endoscopic frames quality, increasing surgical risk and hindering both clinical decision-making and computer-assisted visual analysis. Therefore, removing surgical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Mingyu Sheng , Jianan Fan , Dongnan Liu , Guoyan Zheng , Ron Kikinis , Weidong Cai

Smoke in real-world scenes can severely degrade image quality and hamper visibility. Recent image restoration methods either rely on data-driven priors that are susceptible to hallucinations, or are limited to static low-density smoke. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Neham Jain , Andrew Jong , Sebastian Scherer , Ioannis Gkioulekas

In this paper, we denoise a given noisy image by minimizing a smoothness promoting function over a set of local similarity measures which compare the mean of the given image and some candidate image on a large collection of subboxes. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Christian Kanzow , Fabius Krämer , Patrick Mehlitz , Gerd Wachsmuth , Frank Werner

In endoscopic surgery, a clear and high-quality visual field is critical for surgeons to make accurate intraoperative decisions. However, persistent visual degradation, including smoke generated by energy devices, lens fogging from thermal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jialun Pei , Diandian Guo , Donghui Yang , Zhixi Li , Yuxin Feng , Long Ma , Bo Du , Pheng-Ann Heng

Augmented Lagrangian method (also called as method of multipliers) is an important and powerful optimization method for lots of smooth or nonsmooth variational problems in modern signal processing, imaging, optimal control and so on.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Hongpeng Sun

Although much research has been devoted to the problem of restoring Poissonian images, namely in the fields of medical and astronomical imaging, applying the state of the art regularizers (such as those based on wavelets or total variation)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-05-01 Mario A. T. Figueiredo , Jose M. Bioucas-Dias

Laparoscopic images and videos are often affected by different types of distortion like noise, smoke, blur and nonuniform illumination. Automatic detection of these distortions, followed generally by application of appropriate image quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Zohaib Amjad Khan , Azeddine Beghdadi , Mounir Kaaniche , Faouzi Alaya Cheikh

Image defogging is a technique used extensively for enhancing visual quality of images in bad weather condition. Even though defogging algorithms have been well studied, defogging performance is degraded by demosaicking artifacts and sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Y. J. Lee , K. Hirakawa , T. Q. Nguyen

Due to the difficulty of collecting real paired data, most existing desmoking methods train the models by synthesizing smoke, generalizing poorly to real surgical scenarios. Although a few works have explored single-image real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Renlong Wu , Zhilu Zhang , Shuohao Zhang , Longfei Gou , Haobin Chen , Lei Zhang , Hao Chen , Wangmeng Zuo

A new algorithm for solving large-scale convex optimization problems with a separable objective function is proposed. The basic idea is to combine three techniques: Lagrangian dual decomposition, excessive gap and smoothing. The main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-01 Tran Dinh Quoc , Carlo Savorgnan , Moritz Diehl
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