Attention-Guided Lightweight Network for Real-Time Segmentation of Robotic Surgical Instruments

Zhen-Liang Ni,Gui-Bin Bian,Zeng-Guang Hou,Xiao-Hu Zhou,Xiao-Liang Xie,Zhen Li,Zhen-Liang Ni,Gui-Bin Bian,Zeng-Guang Hou,Xiao-Hu Zhou,Xiao-Liang Xie,Zhen Li

The real-time segmentation of surgical instruments plays a crucial role in robot-assisted surgery. However, it is still a challenging task to implement deep learning models to do real-time segmentation for surgical instruments due to their high computational costs and slow inference speed. In this paper, we propose an attention-guided lightweight network (LWANet), which can segment surgical instru...