CATARACTS

A fundamental building block of any computer-assisted interventions (CAI) is the ability to automatically understand what the surgeons are performing throughout the surgery. In other words, recognizing the surgical activities being performed or the tools being used by the surgeon can be deemed as an essential steps toward CAI. The main motivation for these tasks is to design efficient solutions for surgical workflow analysis. The CATARACTS dataset was proposed in this context. This dataset consists of 50 cataract surgery. It was annotated for two main tasks: surgical tool presence detection and surgical activity recognition. It was divided into two sets (train, test) for the surgical tool presence detection task and 3 sets (train, dev, test) for the activity recognition task. This dataset was used in three different: CATARACTS2017, CATARACTS2018 and CATARACTS2020. The ground truth of the test sets of these challenges are now released so the community can use it to benchmark algorithms for sugical workflow analysis.