<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<br><br>We are writing to announce <b>SafeSurg: Workshop on AI for Safe Surgery,</b>
an inaugural workshop held at MICCAI (Medical Image Computing and
Computer Assisted Interventions) 2026, one of the top conferences in the
field of medical image computing and surgical AI, to be held between 27th Sept-
1st Oct 2026 in Strasbourg, France. <br><br><div>Surgery concentrates
several open problems in computer vision and machine learning in a
high-stakes safety-relevant setting: rare event detection under extreme
class imbalance, distribution shift across centres and devices, learning
from ambiguous and disagreeing labels, calibrated uncertainty, and the
design of human-AI interfaces for reliable use. SafeSurg brings together
researchers, clinicians, and industry partners around these real-world,
clinically meaningful problems.</div><div><br></div>We invite full
paper submissions (Springer LNCS format, 8 pages) on safety-directed
topics, including safe data use and annotation frameworks,
safety-critical applications such as adverse event detection and
anticipation, surgical quality measures, robustness and multi-centric
evaluation, and human-AI interfaces for the operating room. The full
list of topics and submission details is available on the workshop
website: <a href="https://camma-public.github.io/safesurg-workshop/" target="_blank">https://camma-public.github.io/safesurg-workshop/<br></a><br><b>Key dates:</b> Paper submissions due 1 July 2026. Submissions will be managed via OpenReview here: <a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=MICCAI.org%2F2026%2FWorkshop%2FSafeSurg" target="_blank">https://openreview.net/group?id=MICCAI.org%2F2026%2FWorkshop%2FSafeSurg</a><br><br><b>Call for reviewers:</b> We are also recruiting reviewers for the workshop. If you would like to contribute to the review process, please sign up here: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrzGCAp2-sE1CuPg80EwPpjRpzYeTOwCWCQio7s38B_8C5jQ/viewform" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrzGCAp2-sE1CuPg80EwPpjRpzYeTOwCWCQio7s38B_8C5jQ/viewform</a>.
We welcome reviewers across career stages and encourage expressions of
interest from researchers and clinicians working on any of the workshop
topics.<br><br>Please feel free to forward this announcement to
colleagues and students who may be interested. We look forward to your
contributions and to seeing you on the workshop day!<br><br>Best regards, <br>Lalith Sharan on behalf of the SafeSurg organising committee<br>Nicolas Padoy · Pietro Mascagni · Namkee Oh · Sophia Bano · Hongliang Ren</div>