For this challenge your team will use video of tools interacting with tissue in a surgical exercise, along with labels of the tools present in the video, to localize surgical tools in test data. A large data set of 30 second video clips and the tools present within them are provided.

In order to participate in this challenge, please follow the steps below:

    1. Register for the challenge by clicking on the "Join" button on top right of this webpage 
    2. The team lead (only) should send the agreement form available here to isi.challenges@intusurg.com.
    3. Read the challenge guidelines here.
    4. Once your team members are accepted into the challenge, create your team here.
    5. Familiarize yourself with the timeline for the challenge here.
    6. Read the high level challenge description here.
    7. Understand the details of training and testing data here.
    8. Check out the prizes for the challenge here.
    9. Download data from here. (only accessible after completing registration step)
    10. Understand the evaluation criteria as described here.
    11. Make sure you understand the submission instructions available here.
    12. Review SurgToolLoc 2022 resources here for context and to understand what worked for winning teams and what didn't. 
    13. Check out this great tutorial developed by the NVIDIA team from SurgToolLoc 2022 challenge.
    14. Make your submissions directly online to the grand-challenge website.
    15. Register for MICCAI and attend EndoVis!