Endoscopic Vision Challenge

A MICCAI Challenge

Datasets & Publications

EndoVis 2026

Sub-Challenge	Publication	Dataset
RARE2026: Recognition of Anomalies in low-pREvalance cancer
SurgVu2026: Surgical Visual Understanding
STIR2026: Surgical Tissue Tracking Using the STIR (Surgical Tattoos in Infrared) Dataset
TIGER-SQ-AI2026: AI-based surgical quality assessment for thoracic lymphadenectomy in minimally invasive esophagectomy
CLiMB2026: Colonoscopy Localization and Mapping Benchmark
iMED2026: Multi-Endoscope Dataset Novel View Synthesis Challenge

EndoVis 2025

Sub-Challenge	Publication	Dataset
SurgVu: Surgical Visual Understanding
RARE: Recognition of Anomalies in low-pREvalance cancer
STIR: Surgical Tissue Tracking Using the STIR (Surgical Tattoos in Infrared) Dataset
OSS: Open Suturing Skills

EndoVis 2024

Sub-Challenge	Publication	Dataset
PhaKIR: Surgical Procedure Phase Recognition, Keypoint Estimation, and Instrument Instance Segmentation	Comparative validation of surgical phase recognition, instrument keypoint estimation, and instrument instance segmentation in endoscopy: Results of the PhaKIR 2024 challenge	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15740620
SegSTRONG-C: Segmenting Surgical Tools Robustly On Non-adversarially Generated Corruptions
SegCol: Semantic Segmentation for Tools and Fold Edges in Colonoscopy data
SurgVU: Surgical visual understanding
HiSWA-RLLS: Hierarchical surgical workflow analysis for robotic left lateral sectionectomy
STIR: Surgical Tissue Tracking Using the STIR (Surgical Tattoos in Infrared) Dataset
OSS: Open Suturing Skills Challenge		https://zenodo.org/records/7940583
FedSurg: Federated Learning for Surgical Vision	Federated Learning for Surgical Vision in Appendicitis Classification: Results of the FedSurg EndoVis 2024 Challenge

EndoVis 2023

Sub-Challenge	Publication	Dataset
SIMS: Surgical Instrument Multi-Domain Segmentation Challenge		Synapse Project
PitVis: Surgical workflow and instrument recognition in endonasal surgery	PitVis-2023 Challenge: Workflow Recognition in videos of Endoscopic Pituitary Surgery	https://doi.org/10.5522/04/26531686
SurgToolLoc: Surgical Tool Localization in endoscopic videos	Intuitive Surgical SurgToolLoc Challenge Results: 2022-2023	Surgical Visual Understanding (SurgVU) Dataset
Syn-ISS: Synthetic data for Instrument Segmentation in Surgery
SurgRIPE: Surgical Robot Instrument Pose Estimation	SurgRIPE challenge: Benchmark of surgical robot instrument pose estimation	Synapse Project

EndoVis 2022

Sub-Challenge	Publication	Dataset
SurgToolLoc: Endoscopic surgical tool localization by leveraging tool presence labels	Intuitive Surgical SurgToolLoc Challenge Results: 2022-2023	Surgical Visual Understanding (SurgVU) Dataset
CholecTriplet2022: Surgical Action Triplet Detection and Localization	CholecTriplet2022: Show me a tool and tell me the triplet – an endoscopic vision challenge for surgical action triplet detection	https://github.com/CAMMA-public/cholect45
SAR-RARP50: Instrumentation segmentation and Action Recognition on robotic RadicalProstatectomy	SAR-RARP50: Segmentation of surgical instrumentation and Action Recognition on Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy Challenge	https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/projects/SAR-RARP50_Segmentation_of_surgical_instrumentation_and_Action_Recognition_on_Robot-Assisted_Radical_Prostatectomy_Challenge/191091
SimCol-to 3D: Simulated Colonoscopy data for 3D (scene) reconstruction	SimCol3D – 3D Reconstruction during Colonoscopy Challenge	Synapse Project
SurgT: a challenge for tissue tracking in surgery	SurgT challenge: Benchmark of Soft-Tissue Trackers for Robotic Surgery
P2ILF: Preoperative to Intraoperative Laparoscopy Fusion	An objective comparison of methods for augmented reality in laparoscopic liver resection by preoperative-to-intraoperative image fusion from the MICCAI2022 challenge

EndoVis 2021

Sub-Challenge	Publication	Dataset
HeiSurf: HeiChole Surgical Workflow Analysis and Full Scene Segmentation		Synapse Project
GIANA: Gastrointestinal ImAge ANAlysis
CholecTriplet2021: Surgical Action Triplet Recognition	CholecTriplet2021: A benchmark challenge for surgical action triplet recognition	https://github.com/CAMMA-public/cholect45
FetReg: Placental Vessel Segmentation and Registration in Fetoscopy	FetReg: Placental Vessel Segmentation and Registration in Fetoscopy Challenge Dataset	https://weiss-develop.cs.ucl.ac.uk/fetreg/
PETRAW: PEg TRAnsfer Workflow recognition by different modalities	PEg TRAnsfer Workflow recognition challenge report: Does multi-modal data improve recognition?	Synapse Project
SimSurgSkill: Objective Surgical Skill Assessment in VR Simulation	Objective Surgical Skills Assessment and Tool Localization: Results from the MICCAI 2021 SimSurgSkill Challenge	https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/isi-simsurgskill-2021?pli=1

EndoVis 2020

Sub-Challenge	Publication	Dataset
CATARACTS Segmentation	2020 CATARACTS Semantic Segmentation Challenge	https://ieee-dataport.org/open-access/cataracts
CATARACTS Workflow		https://ieee-dataport.org/open-access/cataracts
MIcro-Surgical Anastomose Workflow recognition on training sessions (MISAW)	MIcro-surgical anastomose workflow recognition challenge report	Synapse Project
Surgical visual domain adaptation: from virtual reality to real, clinical environments (SurgVisDm)	Surgical Visual Domain Adaptation: Results from the MICCAI 2020 SurgVisDom Challenge	Synapse Project

EndoVis 2019

Sub-Challenge	Publication	Dataset
Robust Medical Instrument Segmentation (ROBUST-MIS)	Heidelberg colorectal data set for surgical data science in the sensor operating room Comparative validation of multi-instance instrument segmentation in endoscopy: Results of the ROBUST-MIS 2019 challenge	Synapse Project
Stereo Correspondence and Reconstruction of Endoscopic Data	Stereo Correspondence and Reconstruction of Endoscopic Data Challenge
Surgical Workflow and Skill Analysis	Comparative Validation of Machine Learning Algorithms for Surgical Workflow and Skill Analysis with the HeiChole Benchmark	Synapse Project

EndoVis 2018

Sub-Challenge	Publication	Dataset
Gastrointestinal Image ANAlysis (GIANA)	Polyp Segmentation in Colonoscopy Images
Surgical Workflow Analysis in the SensorOR		Synapse Project
Robotic Scene Segmentation	2018 Robotic Scene Segmentation Challenge	https://endovissub2018-roboticscenesegmentation.grand-challenge.org/Data/
CATARACTS	CATARACTS: Challenge on automatic tool annotation for cataRACT surgery	https://cataracts2018.grand-challenge.org/data/

EndoVis 2017

Sub-Challenge	Publication	Dataset
Gastrointestinal Image ANAlysis (GIANA)	Polyp Segmentation in Colonoscopy Images
Surgical Workflow Analysis in the SensorOR		Synapse Project
Robotic Instrument Segmentation	2017 Robotic Instrument Segmentation Challenge	https://endovissub2017-roboticinstrumentsegmentation.grand-challenge.org/Data/
Kidney Boundary Detection	Kidney edge detection in laparoscopic image data for computer-assisted surgery	https://endovissub2017-kidneyboundarydetection.grand-challenge.org/Data/

EndoVis 2015

Sub-Challenge	Publication	Dataset
Instrument segmentation and tracking	Comparative evaluation of instrument segmentation and tracking methods in minimally invasive surgery
Automatic polyp detection in colonoscopy videos	Comparative Validation of Polyp Detection Methods in Video Colonoscopy: Results From the MICCAI 2015 Endoscopic Vision Challenge	https://polyp.grand-challenge.org/Databases/
Early Barrett’s cancer detection		https://endovissub-barrett.grand-challenge.org/Data_description/
Detection of abnormalities in gastroscopic images		https://endovissub-abnormal.grand-challenge.org/Data/