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Dual-branch temporal modeling with key-frame selection distinguishes bleeding IAEs from residual blood in surgical videos.

2026-06-26 09:35 UTC pith:UL56TGXI

load-bearing objection DBT-Bleed adds a dual-branch adapter model, HiRED selection, and the first neurosurgery IAE dataset, with reported gains, but the claims rest on untested assumptions without ablations or verification. the 3 major comments →

arxiv 2606.22829 v1 pith:UL56TGXI submitted 2026-06-22 cs.CV cs.AI

DBT-Bleed: Dual-Branch Temporal Modeling with Key-Frame Selection for Surgical Bleeding Detection

Sudhanshu Mishra , Jialang Xu , Jensen Ang , Evangelos B. Mazomenos , Beng Ti Ang , Yueming Jin This is my paper
classification cs.CV cs.AI
keywords bleeding detectionintraoperative adverse eventstemporal modelingframe selectionsurgical video analysisdual-branch networkIAE detectionzero-shot transfer
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The paper introduces DBT-Bleed to improve detection of bleeding as intraoperative adverse events by addressing limited temporal reasoning in existing methods that confuse active bleeding with leftover blood. It employs a dual-branch architecture using layer-wise temporal adapters to capture short- and long-term bleeding progression separately from normal states. HiRED, a hierarchical entropy-driven frame selection method, reduces redundancy in long videos while retaining informative segments. This setup yields measurable gains on the MultiBypass dataset and shows zero-shot transfer to a new neurosurgery dataset without retraining.

Core claim

DBT-Bleed is a dual-branch multi-scale temporal modeling framework that disentangles bleeding and normal representations using layer-wise temporal adapters for short- and long-term bleeding progression. HiRED, the Hierarchical Entropy-Driven frame selection strategy, retains temporally informative segments while removing redundancy to process long surgical videos efficiently. On the MultiBypass dataset this produces gains of 6.53% in F1, 5.62% in Recall and 9% in MCC for bleeding IAE detection over video-level baselines, and achieves 6% F1 and 8% MCC gains under zero-shot evaluation on the newly introduced EndoPit-IAE dataset from endonasal pituitary surgery.

What carries the argument

Dual-branch architecture with layer-wise temporal adapters that separate bleeding progression representations, paired with HiRED hierarchical entropy-driven key-frame selection.

Load-bearing premise

The layer-wise temporal adapters successfully disentangle bleeding progression from residual blood without procedure-specific retraining, and HiRED frame selection preserves all critical temporal dynamics needed for accurate IAE labeling.

What would settle it

On a held-out set of videos containing visually similar residual blood and active bleeding, the model shows no F1 or MCC improvement over standard video classifiers, or selected frames omit bleeding onset moments and cause missed detections.

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If this is right

  • Outperforms video-level baselines by 6.53% F1, 5.62% Recall and 9% MCC on MultiBypass for bleeding IAE detection.
  • Demonstrates 6% F1 and 8% MCC gains under zero-shot transfer to EndoPit-IAE from a different surgical procedure.
  • Enables efficient processing of long videos without loss of fine-grained temporal information via HiRED selection.
  • Supports introduction of the first IAE-annotated dataset in neurosurgery (EndoPit-IAE).

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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  • The approach could support real-time IAE alert systems in operating rooms across multiple surgery types.
  • HiRED-style selection may reduce compute needs for other long redundant video tasks such as procedural logging.
  • Cross-procedure transfer suggests a path toward unified models for IAE detection if additional annotated datasets become available.
  • Lower computational cost for video processing could make advanced analysis practical on standard hospital hardware.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces DBT-Bleed, a dual-branch multi-scale temporal modeling framework that uses layer-wise temporal adapters to disentangle short- and long-term bleeding progression representations from residual blood, paired with HiRED, a hierarchical entropy-driven key-frame selection strategy for efficient processing of long surgical videos. On the MultiBypass dataset it reports gains of 6.53% F1, 5.62% Recall and 9% MCC for bleeding IAE detection over video-level baselines; it further claims 6% F1 and 8% MCC gains under zero-shot transfer to the newly introduced EndoPit-IAE dataset from endonasal pituitary surgery, presented as the first IAE-annotated neurosurgical dataset. Code release is promised upon acceptance.

Significance. If the empirical claims are substantiated, the work targets an important clinical problem in intraoperative safety monitoring. The release of EndoPit-IAE and the public code commitment constitute concrete contributions that could enable follow-on research in surgical video analysis.

major comments (3)
  1. [Experiments] Experiments section: no ablation studies are reported that isolate the contribution of the dual-branch architecture or the layer-wise temporal adapters versus the HiRED selection module. Without these controls the attribution of the stated 6.53% F1 / 9% MCC gains specifically to the proposed disentanglement mechanism cannot be verified.
  2. [Method] Method and Experiments sections: the central modeling assumption that layer-wise adapters successfully separate bleeding-progression features from residual-blood appearance is stated but unsupported by any representation visualizations, feature-space analyses, or quantitative disentanglement metrics.
  3. [Experiments] Experiments section: the manuscript supplies no verification that HiRED-selected frames retain every IAE onset/offset required for accurate labeling, nor any comparison of temporal coverage before and after selection. This leaves the claim that fine-grained dynamics are preserved untested.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the phrase 'video-level baselines' is used without naming the specific methods or architectures being compared.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We address each major comment below and will incorporate the requested analyses in the revised manuscript to strengthen the empirical validation of our claims.

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  1. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: no ablation studies are reported that isolate the contribution of the dual-branch architecture or the layer-wise temporal adapters versus the HiRED selection module. Without these controls the attribution of the stated 6.53% F1 / 9% MCC gains specifically to the proposed disentanglement mechanism cannot be verified.

    Authors: We agree that explicit ablations are required to isolate the dual-branch temporal adapters from the HiRED module. The submitted manuscript reports overall gains against video-level baselines but does not include component-wise removals. In the revision we will add ablation experiments on MultiBypass that remove the dual-branch structure (single-branch variant) and disable HiRED (full-frame variant), reporting the resulting drops in F1, Recall and MCC to quantify each contribution. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Method] Method and Experiments sections: the central modeling assumption that layer-wise adapters successfully separate bleeding-progression features from residual-blood appearance is stated but unsupported by any representation visualizations, feature-space analyses, or quantitative disentanglement metrics.

    Authors: The layer-wise adapter design is intended to capture multi-scale temporal dynamics at different network depths, thereby separating progression signals from static appearance. We acknowledge that the current manuscript provides no supporting visualizations or metrics. The revision will add t-SNE plots of branch-specific features on bleeding versus residual-blood frames together with a quantitative measure (e.g., inter-branch feature correlation or clustering separation) to substantiate the disentanglement claim. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: the manuscript supplies no verification that HiRED-selected frames retain every IAE onset/offset required for accurate labeling, nor any comparison of temporal coverage before and after selection. This leaves the claim that fine-grained dynamics are preserved untested.

    Authors: We will augment the experiments section with a temporal-coverage analysis. This will report the percentage of IAE onset and offset frames retained by HiRED across the MultiBypass test set and will include before/after comparisons of video length and the number of preserved key events to confirm that critical temporal boundaries remain intact. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; empirical claims rest on held-out dataset comparisons

full rationale

The paper proposes an architecture (dual-branch with layer-wise adapters) and a frame selection method (HiRED), then reports F1/Recall/MCC gains on MultiBypass and zero-shot transfer on the newly introduced EndoPit-IAE dataset. No equations, derivations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citation chains appear in the provided text. Performance numbers are direct empirical comparisons against baselines on held-out data; the central claims do not reduce to inputs by construction.

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Intraoperative Adverse Events (IAEs) detection is critical for improving surgical safety, with bleeding being among the most frequent events across many surgery types. Existing methods struggle to distinguish bleeding IAE from visually similar residual blood due to limited temporal reasoning. Moreover, modeling long surgical videos while preserving fine-grained temporal dynamics remains computationally challenging. We propose DBT-Bleed, a dual-branch multi-scale temporal modeling framework disentangling bleeding and normal representations using layer-wise temporal adapters for short- and long-term bleeding progression. To efficiently process long surgical videos without sacrificing fine-grained temporal information, we introduce HiRED, a Hierarchical Entropy-Driven frame selection strategy that retains temporally informative segments while removing redundancy. Experiments on the MultiBypass dataset demonstrate gains of 6.53% in F1, 5.62% in Recall and 9% in MCC values for bleeding IAE detection, consistently outperforming video-level baselines. Additionally, we evaluate cross-procedure generalization on a newly curated dataset from a different surgical procedure type, where DBT-Bleed demonstrates robust transferability by achieving gain of 6% in F1 and 8% in MCC under zero-shot setting. To support this evaluation, we introduce EndoPit-IAE, an Endonasal Pituitary Surgery dataset annotated for IAEs, representing the first IAE-annotated dataset in neurosurgery. Code will be made publicly available upon acceptance.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.22829 by Beng Ti Ang, Evangelos B. Mazomenos, Jensen Ang, Jialang Xu, Sudhanshu Mishra, Yueming Jin.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Non-IAE residual blood visibly similar to bleeding IAEs. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of the proposed (a) DBT-Bleed framework, including (b) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Red-channel Shannon Entropy Distribution. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Ribbon visualizations of model predictions on MultiBypass dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative MultiBypass results: (a)-(b) show non-IAE residual blood; (c) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗

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