Connectionists: Call for Papers - SafeSurg: Workshop on AI for Safe Surgery, MICCAI2026

[safe surg]

Dear all,

We are writing to announce *SafeSurg: Workshop on AI for Safe Surgery,* 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.

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.

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:
https://camma-public.github.io/safesurg-workshop/

*Key dates:* Paper submissions due 1 July 2026. Submissions will be managed
via OpenReview here:
https://openreview.net/group?id=MICCAI.org%2F2026%2FWorkshop%2FSafeSurg

*Call for reviewers:* We are also recruiting reviewers for the workshop. If
you would like to contribute to the review process, please sign up here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrzGCAp2-sE1CuPg80EwPpjRpzYeTOwCWCQio7s38B_8C5jQ/viewform.
We welcome reviewers across career stages and encourage expressions of
interest from researchers and clinicians working on any of the workshop
topics.

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!

Best regards,
Lalith Sharan on behalf of the SafeSurg organising committee
Nicolas Padoy · Pietro Mascagni · Namkee Oh · Sophia Bano · Hongliang Ren
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