Important: The challenge is over and no more submissions are possible.

The dataset is available on Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/records/15740620) and described in the corresponding dataset publication:

• • Rueckert, Tobias et al.: Video Dataset for Surgical Phase, Keypoint, and Instrument Recognition in Laparoscopic Surgery (PhaKIR). arXiv preprint, https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06549. 2025.

The results of the challenge are described here:

• • Rueckert, Tobias et al.: Comparative validation of surgical phase recognition, instrument keypoint estimation, and instrument instance segmentation in endoscopy: Results of the PhaKIR 2024 challenge. arXiv preprint, https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16559. 2025.