{"id":3247,"date":"2025-08-04T12:28:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:57:36","slug":"%f0%9f%9b%a0%ef%b8%8f-introducing-cat-sd-privacy-centric-ai-in-robotic-surgery-%f0%9f%a4%96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/news\/%f0%9f%9b%a0%ef%b8%8f-introducing-cat-sd-privacy-centric-ai-in-robotic-surgery-%f0%9f%a4%96\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udee0\ufe0f Introducing CAT-SD: Privacy-Centric AI in Robotic Surgery \ud83e\udd16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In our recent work, &#8220;Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Continual Semantic Segmentation for Robotic Surgery&#8221;, which was published in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, we propose a state-of-the-art framework for continual semantic segmentation in robotic surgery. This breakthrough addresses catastrophic forgetting in DNNs, enhancing surgical precision without compromising patient privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd12 Privacy-First Synthetic Data: We&#8217;ve crafted a solution that blends open-source instrument data with synthesized backgrounds, ensuring real patient data remains confidential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udca1 Innovative Features:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Class-Aware Temperature Normalization (CAT)&nbsp;to prevent forgetting of previously learned tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Multi-Scale Shifted-Feature Distillation (SD)&nbsp;to preserve spatial relationships for robust feature learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check the paper at https:\/\/lnkd.in\/eTy8KAC5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Code is also available at https:\/\/lnkd.in\/eMzNs2Be<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-authors: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/103371608\/admin\/page-posts\/published\/#\">Mengya Xu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/103371608\/admin\/page-posts\/published\/#\">Mobarakol Islam<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/103371608\/admin\/page-posts\/published\/#\">Long Bai<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/103371608\/admin\/page-posts\/published\/#\">Hongliang Ren<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D4E22AQE4k-DTgd3oDQ\/feedshare-shrink_800\/feedshare-shrink_800\/0\/1722956372976?e=1756944000&amp;v=beta&amp;t=F_g3SqY1SVRP3r9RDOb5sFMlgwM7VKQTefR34UCVz9c\" alt=\"No alternative text description for this image\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D4E22AQFGUyStks8-eA\/feedshare-shrink_800\/feedshare-shrink_800\/0\/1722956373162?e=1756944000&amp;v=beta&amp;t=S1m_rWCBT09T9VuaSqnTE91vS0Bi71bI8E3tXaPwUww\" alt=\"No alternative text description for this image\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D4E22AQGrmSu1uNMFeg\/feedshare-shrink_800\/feedshare-shrink_800\/0\/1722956372635?e=1756944000&amp;v=beta&amp;t=njXfuD7pXdAimS6hABOuiqvYuNuSery2o0I0mW22Nhg\" alt=\"No alternative text description for this image\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D4E22AQEEpXVuXFgTCw\/feedshare-shrink_800\/feedshare-shrink_800\/0\/1722956372661?e=1756944000&amp;v=beta&amp;t=OKDqym-mVyUUaJLVFpph-ezDppbEPNx-XZ3GsfkqTKM\" alt=\"No alternative text description for this image\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our recent work, &#8220;Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Continual Semantic Segmentation for Robotic Surgery&#8221;, which was published in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, we propose a state-of-the-art framework for continual semantic segmentation in robotic surgery. This breakthrough addresses catastrophic forgetting in DNNs, enhancing surgical precision without compromising patient privacy. \ud83d\udd12 Privacy-First Synthetic\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/news\/%f0%9f%9b%a0%ef%b8%8f-introducing-cat-sd-privacy-centric-ai-in-robotic-surgery-%f0%9f%a4%96\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[119,120,118],"class_list":["post-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-continuallearning","tag-roboticsurgery","tag-surgicalai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3248,"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions\/3248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}