Towards a video quality assessment based framework for enhancement of laparoscopic videos
Zohaib Amjad Khan, Azeddine Beghdadi, Faouzi Alaya Cheikh, Mounir Kaaniche, Egidijus Pelanis, Rafael Palomar, Åsmund Avdem Fretland, Bjørn Edwin, Ole Jakob Elle
Abstract
Laparoscopic videos can be affected by different distortions which may impact the performance of surgery and introduce surgical errors. In this work, we propose a framework for automatically detecting and identifying such distortions and their severity using video quality assessment. There are three major contributions presented in this work (i) a proposal for a novel video enhancement framework for laparoscopic surgery; (ii) a publicly available database for quality assessment of laparoscopic videos evaluated by expert as well as non-expert observers and (iii) objective video quality assessment of laparoscopic videos including their correlations with expert and non-expert scores.