Intraoperative anomalies cause deviations from the ideal surgical workflow, heightening the risk of consequential errors and complications. Their reliable recognition has traditionally relied on continuous surgeon monitoring, yet automated anomaly detection systems are now indispensable for the safe advancement of assistive and autonomous surgery. However, existing approaches struggle with domain shifts across surgical platforms and unpredictable scenarios in deformable surgical environments. To address this, we propose DA-MIST, a Domain Adaptive Multiple Instance Self-Training framework for weakly supervised anomaly detection. DA-MIST adopts a two-stage training strategy that combines multiple instance learning with self-training, enhanced by a scene-decoupled memory mechanism that disentangles state-irrelevant scene variations from memory banks, preserving only state-discriminative features for robust anomaly identification. Additionally, a state-aware dual-branch attention module integrates Gaussian dynamic and global self-attention for effective temporal reasoning. Evaluated on our newly compiled large-scale endoscopic video dataset encompassing seven representative anomalies, DA-MIST demonstrates strong adaptability across heterogeneous surgical domains, consistently reducing false alarms and enhancing anomaly localization accuracy. Our code and dataset will be available at: https://github.com/iamziang/DA-MIST.
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