2 research outputs found
SimCol3D -- 3D Reconstruction during Colonoscopy Challenge
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. While
colonoscopy is an effective screening technique, navigating an endoscope
through the colon to detect polyps is challenging. A 3D map of the observed
surfaces could enhance the identification of unscreened colon tissue and serve
as a training platform. However, reconstructing the colon from video footage
remains unsolved due to numerous factors such as self-occlusion, reflective
surfaces, lack of texture, and tissue deformation that limit feature-based
methods. Learning-based approaches hold promise as robust alternatives, but
necessitate extensive datasets. By establishing a benchmark, the 2022 EndoVis
sub-challenge SimCol3D aimed to facilitate data-driven depth and pose
prediction during colonoscopy. The challenge was hosted as part of MICCAI 2022
in Singapore. Six teams from around the world and representatives from academia
and industry participated in the three sub-challenges: synthetic depth
prediction, synthetic pose prediction, and real pose prediction. This paper
describes the challenge, the submitted methods, and their results. We show that
depth prediction in virtual colonoscopy is robustly solvable, while pose
estimation remains an open research question
SimCol3D - 3D Reconstruction during Colonoscopy Challenge
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. While colonoscopy is an effective screening technique, navigating an endoscope through the colon to detect polyps is challenging. A 3D map of the observed surfaces could enhance the identification of unscreened colon tissue and serve as a training platform. However, reconstructing the colon from video footage remains unsolved due to numerous factors such as self-occlusion, reflective surfaces, lack of texture, and tissue deformation that limit feature-based methods. Learning-based approaches hold promise as robust alternatives, but necessitate extensive datasets. By establishing a benchmark, the 2022 EndoVis sub-challenge SimCol3D aimed to facilitate data-driven depth and pose prediction during colonoscopy. The challenge was hosted as part of MICCAI 2022 in Singapore. Six teams from around the world and representatives from academia and industry participated in the three sub-challenges: synthetic depth prediction, synthetic pose prediction, and real pose prediction. This paper describes the challenge, the submitted methods, and their results. We show that depth prediction in virtual colonoscopy is robustly solvable, while pose estimation remains an open research question