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 |
| Primary category | surgical_video |
| Contained modalities | surgical_video |
| Tasks | classification |
| Samples | 101 |
| 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 |
Notes
ITEC public FTP; license verify against institutional page.
Access preflight and acquisition
- CLI
- Python
# Read-only preflight
eyehub download cataract_101 --data-dir ./data --dry-run --json
# Explicit transfer, only when preflight reports supported behavior
eyehub download cataract_101 --data-dir ./data
from eyedatahub.acquisition import preflight_dataset
from eyedatahub.datasets.registry import REGISTRY
ds = REGISTRY.get_dataset('cataract_101')
print(preflight_dataset(ds, './data')) # no transfer
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
- Plain text
@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/ },
}
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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