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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background: white;">SurgT: Surgical Tracking challenge</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#212529;background:white"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background: white;">Endoscopic Vision Sub-Challenge 2022</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#212529;background:white"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background: white;">2022 Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#212529;background:white"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background: white; line-height: normal;">Visual tracking is a crucial task in</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;"> Computer-Assisted
Interventions (CAI), with a range of applications including soft tissue deformation estimation,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;"> lesion tracking, augmented reality
and robotic visual servoing. Currently, there is a dire need for</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;"> a large publicly available dataset for benchmarking tissue trackers
in surgery, for fueling development in this area</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;"> and improving surgery. To address this, we propose the SurgT challenge, a new first-of-a-kind
collection of</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;"> tools and datasets for training and benchmarking tissue trackers in surgery</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;">.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background: white; line-height: normal;">The SurgT challenge has been created for the purpose of exploring tracking methods for surgical scenes, where there is
limited annotated data available. The participants of this challenge are expected to develop tracking methods, which can learn to perform accurate keypoint tracking on surgical tissue, without the use of human-annotated endoscopic videos. This challenge encourages
the development of self-supervised tracking methods, and also generalised tracking methods which have been trained on annotated non-surgical scenes.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;"> Traditional
computer vision methods are also welcomed.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background: white; line-height: normal;">You are invited to join the challenge and submit your results by 1</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#212529;background:white"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;">st</span></sup></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background: white; line-height: normal;">
September 2022. The results and prize winners will be announced during the MICCAI 2022 conference. Fully remote submissions are also welcome. Find out more at:</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#212529;background:white"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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