Whether and When does Endoscopy Domain Pretraining Make Sense?

Understand

Automated endoscopy video analysis is a challenging task in medical computer vision, with the primary objective of assisting surgeons during procedures.

• The difficulty arises from the complexity of surgical scenes and the lack of a sufficient amount of annotated data.
• In recent years, large-scale pretraining has shown great success in natural language processing and computer vision communities.
• These approaches reduce the need for annotated data, which is always a concern in the medical domain.