Task 01
Procedure workflow
Turn long procedures into structured timelines for research and review.
- AI task
- Phase recognition
- Annotation
- Temporal phase labels
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What video can support
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Task 02
Instrument activity
Use visible instruments as signals for activity, workflow, and interaction.
- AI task
- Detection and tracking
- Annotation
- Boxes, classes, and trajectories
Task 03
Surgical scene anatomy
Represent anatomy and instruments spatially for scene-understanding tasks.
- AI task
- Detection and segmentation
- Annotation
- Boxes and pixel-level masks
Task 04
Safety-criteria review
Translate clinical definitions into explicit, reviewable dataset targets.
- AI task
- Criteria assessment
- Annotation
- Frame- and criterion-level labels
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