HiEndo: harnessing large-scale data for generating high-resolution laparoscopy videos under a two-stage framework

Recent success in generative AI has demonstrated great potential in various medical scenarios. However, how to generate realistic and high-fidelity gastrointestinal laparoscopy videos still lacks exploration. A recent work, Endora, proposes a basic generation model for a gastrointestinal laparoscopy scenario, producing low-resolution laparoscopy videos, which can not meet the real needs in robotic surgery. Regarding this issue, we propose an innovative two-stage video generation architecture HiEndo for generating high-resolution gastrointestinal laparoscopy videos with high fidelity. In the first stage, we build a diffusion transformer for generating a low-resolution laparoscopy video upon the basic capability of Endora as an initial start. In the second stage, we further design a super resolution module to improve the resolution of initial video and refine the fine-grained details. With these two stages, we could obtain high-resolution realistic laparoscopy videos with high fidelity, which can meet the real-world clinical usage. We also collect a large-scale gastrointestinal laparoscopy video dataset with 61,270 video clips for training and validation of our proposed method. Extensive experimental results have demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed framework. For example, our model achieves 15.1% Fréchet Video Distance and 3.7% F1 score improvements compared with the previous state-of-the-art method.