Cataract-101: 101 Cataract Surgery Videos with Phase Annotations

101 cataract surgery videos with 10-phase workflow annotations. Canonical older cataract benchmark.

At a glance

Field	Value
Short name	cataract_101
Full name	Cataract-101: 101 Cataract Surgery Videos with Phase Annotations
First published	Unknown
Publication date precision	Unknown
Publication date evidence	Unknown
Publication date source field	Unknown
Publication date reviewed	Unknown
Primary category	surgical_video
Resource role	current_dataset
Dataset family	cataract_101
Contained modalities	surgical_video
Tasks	classification
Primary reported quantity	101 videos
Classes	10 (Not reported)
Splits	all
Size	25.0 GB
Source-stated terms	Research only (ITEC AAU)
Normalized terms	research-only
Descriptive screening label	Research or challenge restriction recorded; check source
Terms scope	dataset_files
Access friction	anonymous_direct
Route backend	Manual (upstream-gated)
Availability	available (checked 2026-07-21)
Acquisition support	guided_instructions_only
Legacy sample-loader status	Metadata and access only

Reported quantities

Role	Count	Unit	Scope	Basis	Evidence
Primary	101	videos	Primary quantity reported in the reviewed catalog source	legacy_catalog_field	ftp.itec.aau.at/datasets

Counts retain their source-reported units. Additional rows can describe components, paired items, or derivative copies and are not automatically added to the primary quantity.

Notes

ITEC public FTP; license verify against institutional page.

Documented relationships

These links record source-supported lineage or overlap, not merely similar modality tags.

• cataract101_extended_labels is derived from this record: The deposit provides extended labels for the Cataract-101 videos. (evidence)
• insegcat is derived from this record: InSegCat Dataset 1 selects and annotates frames from Cataract-101 videos. (evidence)
• itec_iris_pupil is derived from this record: The official ITEC page states that the annotated iris and pupil frames were selected from Cataract-101 surgery videos. (evidence)

Access information and download

CLI

# Read-only preflight
eyehub download cataract_101 --data-dir ./data --dry-run --json

# Download, only when preflight reports supported behavior
eyehub download cataract_101 --data-dir ./data

Python

from eyedatahub.acquisition import preflight_dataset
from eyedatahub.datasets.registry import REGISTRY

ds = REGISTRY.get_dataset('cataract_101')
print(preflight_dataset(ds, './data'))  # no download

Upstream page: ftp.itec.aau.at/datasets

Source-term evidence: ftp.itec.aau.at/datasets

Loader status

This catalog record provides metadata and access instructions, but it does not yet include a standard DatasetSample loader. Inspect the source file structure or contribute a loader before using it in a training pipeline.

Citation

BibTeX

@misc{cataract_101,
  title  = { Cataract-101: 101 Cataract Surgery Videos with Phase Annotations },
  note   = { Schoeffmann K, Taschwer M, Sarny S, Munzer B, Primus MJ, Putzgruber D, 'Cataract-101 — video dataset of 101 cataract surgeries', ACM MMSys 2018 },
  year   = { 2018 },
  url    = { https://ftp.itec.aau.at/datasets/ovid/cat-101/ },
}

Plain text

Schoeffmann K, Taschwer M, Sarny S, Munzer B, Primus MJ, Putzgruber D, 'Cataract-101 — video dataset of 101 cataract surgeries', ACM MMSys 2018.

Source-stated terms

• Raw source string: Research only (ITEC AAU)
• Normalized category: research-only
• Apparent scope: dataset_files
• Descriptive screening label: Research or challenge restriction recorded; check source

⚠️ Source-stated terms, scope, and normalized labels are curation metadata, not legal advice or a permission finding. Review the current official source before transfer or reuse.

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