Hi everyone,

There were multiple teams who reached out regarding data allowed for pre-training models so we wanted to clarify that for everyone.

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 publicly released upon submission to the challenge.

Hope this clarifies any confusion.

Best, SurgToolLoc 2022 Organizing Committee