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New SurgAtlas dataset enables surgical AI model training

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Researchers have introduced SurgAtlas, a comprehensive dataset containing 15,291 surgical videos totaling 2,391 hours. This dataset, sourced from YouTube, covers 18 surgical specialties and over 5,000 procedure types, notably including a significant number of open surgery recordings. SurgAtlas is designed to facilitate the training of surgical foundation models, and initial fine-tuning of the Qwen3-VL 8B model has demonstrated competitive performance on various surgical benchmarks. AI

IMPACT Enables development of advanced AI systems for surgical training and potentially real-time surgical assistance.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new large-scale dataset and its application in training AI models, which falls under research.

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Filippos Bellos, Andre S. Gala-Garza, Miaowei Wang, Alyssa M. Hardin, Ahmad M. Hider, Yayuan Li, Jing Bi, Susan Liang, Chenliang Xu, Donald S. Likosky, Jason J. Corso ·

    SurgAtlas: A Large-Scale Surgical Video-Language Dataset with 2,391 Hours of Open and Minimally Invasive Surgery

    arXiv:2606.25905v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce SurgAtlas, the largest surgical video-language dataset to date, comprising 15,291 videos (2,391 hours) spanning 18 surgical specialties and over 5,000 procedure types, sourced entirely from publicly available YouTube co…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Jason J. Corso ·

    SurgAtlas: A Large-Scale Surgical Video-Language Dataset with 2,391 Hours of Open and Minimally Invasive Surgery

    We introduce SurgAtlas, the largest surgical video-language dataset to date, comprising 15,291 videos (2,391 hours) spanning 18 surgical specialties and over 5,000 procedure types, sourced entirely from publicly available YouTube content. SurgAtlas is also the first surgical vide…

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