2020 CATARACTS Semantic Segmentation Challenge

Surgical scene segmentation is essential for anatomy and instrument localization which can be further used to assess tissue-instrument interactions during a surgical procedure. In 2017, the Challenge on Automatic Tool Annotation for cataRACT Surgery (CATARACTS) released 50 cataract surgery videos accompanied by instrument usage annotations. These annotations included frame-level instrument presence information. In 2020, we released pixel-wise semantic annotations for anatomy and instruments for 4670 images sampled from 25 videos of the CATARACTS training set. The 2020 CATARACTS Semantic Segmentation Challenge, which was a sub-challenge of the 2020 MICCAI Endoscopic Vision (EndoVis) Challenge, presented three sub-tasks to assess participating solutions on anatomical structure and instrument segmentation. Their performance was assessed on a hidden test set of 531 images from 10 videos of the CATARACTS test set.

Imanol Luengo, Maria Grammatikopoulou, Rahim Mohammadi, Chris Walsh, Chinedu Innocent Nwoye, Deepak Alapatt, Nicolas Padoy, Zhen-Liang Ni, Chen-Chen Fan, Gui-Bin Bian, Zeng-Guang Hou, Heonjin Ha, Jiacheng Wang, Haojie Wang, Dong Guo, Lu Wang, Guotai Wang, Mobarakol Islam, Bharat Giddwani, Ren Hongliang, Theodoros Pissas, Claudio Ravasio, Martin Huber, Jeremy Birch, Joan M.Nunez Do Rio, Lyndon da Cruz, Christos Bergeles, Hongyu Chen, Fucang Jia, Nikhil KumarTomar, Debesh Jha, Michael A. Riegler, Pal Halvorsen, Sophia Bano, Uddhav Vaghela, Jianyuan Hong, Haili Ye, Feihong Huang, Da-Han Wang, Danail Stoyanov · 2021