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King’s Global Engagement Partnership Fund award for new surgical AI collaboration in Nigeria

Congratulations to Tom Vercauteren and Oluwatosin Olatunde Alabi, who have been awarded a King’s College London Global Engagement Partnership Fund grant for a new collaboration with Adewale Adisa, Professor of Surgery at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex in Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

CholecInstanceSeg: A Tool Instance Segmentation Dataset for Laparoscopic Surgery

This paper introduces CholecInstanceSeg, the largest open-access dataset for surgical tool instance segmentation to date. It addresses key gaps in existing datasets by providing high-quality instance annotations for over 41,000 frames derived from clinical laparoscopic cholecystectomy procedures.