Lightweight YOLOv8 Variants for Real-Time Surgical Tool Detection – Dataset and Source Code

Dataset: Includes annotated frames from the m2cai16-tool-locations dataset and the Surgical Tools dataset. Data are split into training, validation, and test sets, with bounding box annotations for surgical instruments. Code: Includes YOLOv8 lightweight variants integrating GhostConv, SC3T, CBAM, and CAM modules, along with training and evaluation scripts. README file: Provides installation requirements, usage instructions, and methodology details to ensure reproducibility.