External dataset

Dear Organizers,

Is it fine to use external datasets on endoscopic surgical videos or not ?

Regards, Satoshi

Hi Satoshi,

Thank you for your question.

Yes - external datasets for pre-training can be used in the challenge.

Best, SurgToolLoc Organizing Committee

Dear Organizers

I have a follow-up question! Is using any dataset about endoscopic surgical video okay, such as a dataset where segmentation labels exist?

Regards, seunghyun

Dear seunghyunlee,

Thank you for your question.

Yes, teams are allowed to use such available datasets for pre-training their models if they wish to.

Best, SurgToolLoc 2022 Organizing Committee

Hi, here I wish ask if using external dataset, should it be a public dataset and be disclosed in the forum? Thanks!

Hi venw,

Thank you for your question.

Teams are free to use any public dataset (including previous challenges) for pre-training their models. If any team has private data that they are pre-training their models on, then that data will need to be disclosed and released upon submission to the challenge. Hope this clarifies your question.

Best, SurgToolLoc 2022 Organizing Committee