Open Surgical AI Initiative

A Foundation for
Surgical AI

Building open datasets, models, benchmarks, and tools to accelerate surgical AI research.

SurgAI Forge is an open initiative led by surgeons, engineers, and researchers who believe that advancing surgical AI requires shared resources, reproducible science, and global collaboration.

Surgical team performing a minimally invasive procedure with endoscopic video displayed on operating room monitors

Institutions

Stanford Medicine Johns Hopkins Medicine
The Challenge

Why SurgAI Forge?

01

Fragmented Resources

Datasets, models, and evaluation frameworks are scattered across institutions and publications.

02

Limited Reproducibility

Many advances are difficult to validate, compare, or build upon.

03

Disconnected Communities

Surgeons and AI researchers often work in parallel rather than together.

Our Vision

An Open Ecosystem for Surgical AI

Shared infrastructure that lets the field discover, evaluate, and build on each other’s work.

Open Datasets

Curated surgical video and annotation resources.

Benchmarks

Standardized evaluation frameworks.

Models & Tools

Open resources that accelerate research.

Community

Connecting surgeons, engineers, and scientists.

Get Involved

Coming Soon

We’re building resources that make it easier to discover, evaluate, and contribute to surgical AI research.