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Technical Deep Dive: How DepthPilot Works

DepthPilot leverages a diffusion-based model with two core synergistic paradigms:

• Prior Distribution Alignment (PDA): Injects depth constraints into the diffusion backbone via parameter-efficient fine-tuning, ensuring explicit geometric grounding and anatomical fidelity. This strategy bridges the gap from mere controllability to interpretability by aligning generated content with physical priors.
• Adaptive Spline Denoising (ASD): Replaces fixed linear weights with learnable spline functions in the denoising architecture. This enhances the model's capacity to capture complex spatio-temporal dynamics and irregular intestinal structures, preventing intra-frame blur and inter-frame incoherence.

The model is trained in two stages: an unconditional warm-up followed by an injection stage that activates the PDA strategy, focusing fine-tuning on ASD blocks to maintain anatomical fidelity and prevent catastrophic forgetting.

Validation and Performance

Extensive evaluations across three public datasets (Colonoscopic, HyperKvasir, SUN-SEG) and in-house clinical data confirm DepthPilot's robust ability to produce physically consistent videos. It consistently achieves FID scores below 15 across all benchmarks, indicating exceptional image quality that closely approximates real data distribution. On the SUN-SEG dataset, it achieves a 272 FVD and a 4.71 Clinician Score, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art GAN and diffusion-based methods. Clinician assessments highlight DepthPilot's success in bridging the gap between "visually realistic" and "clinically interpretable." Ablation studies further demonstrate the critical contributions of both PDA and ASD modules to improving video fidelity and structural integrity.

Future Outlook and Enterprise Relevance

DepthPilot is a pioneering step towards trustworthy and interpretable AI for medical video generation. Its ability to generate anatomically faithful videos will enable reliable 3D reconstruction of intestinal structures, facilitating surgical navigation, and accurate identification of blind regions. This framework lays a solid foundation for the development of a unified colorectal world model, promising a transformative impact on endoscopic practice and medical training. The broad compatibility with various depth priors (real video, simulation, phantom) further expands its applicability in diverse clinical and research settings.