Q1 IF 14.0

Advancing Automated Phase Recognition in Cataract Surgery through the SICS-155 challenge

Simon Mueller, Bhuvan Sachdeva, Singri Niharika Prasad, Raphael Lechtenboehmer, Frank G Holz, Robert P Finger, Christopher Nielsen, Patrick Gooi, Adrian Gooi, Nils D. Forkert, Yasser El Jarida, Youssef Iraqi, Loubna Mekouar, Yiran Kong, Zhihai Huang, Jiawei Du, Huiqi Li, Lasse Renz-Kiefel, Eric L. Wisotzky, Dong Zheng, Jiacheng Lin, Miao Hu, Yanwu Xu, Mohit Jain, Kaushik Murali, Maximilian W M Wintergerst, Thomas Schultz

Medical Image Analysis (Elsevier) 2026

DOI

Challenge paper from the SICS-155 phase recognition challenge at MICCAI 2025. The challenge released 155 expert-annotated Manual Small-Incision Cataract Surgery videos (19 phases, average duration 13:05). The paper analyzes participating submissions and distills a new state-of-the-art architecture based on FACT.

My contribution was the Boundary-Aware FACT model, the final architecture used in the paper. Related event: MICCAI 2025 OMNIA (SICS155), ranked 2nd.