The Critical View of Safety Challenge

The SAGES Critical View of Safety (CVS) Challenge is a global initiative to advance clinically meaningful AI solutions for automated assessment of the Critical View of Safety in laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

The inaugural challenge, presented at MICCAI 2024 in Marrakesh, brought together 54 institutions across 24 countries to curate a diverse dataset of 1,000 surgical videos, annotated by 20 surgical experts. Thirteen international teams participated in the challenge, addressing key questions in AI-based surgical quality assessment, including performance, annotation uncertainty, and robustness across diverse surgical settings.

In 2025, the challenge returned as a MICCAI Lighthouse Challenge, introducing additional tasks focused on scene understanding and computational efficiency.