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Federated Learning Challenge Reports Results for Surgical Appendicitis Classification
A paper summarizes the FedSurg EndoVis 2024 Challenge, which tested federated learning methods on surgical video for appendicitis classification without centralizing patient data. The work addresses the difficulty of building generalizable surgical AI when hospitals cannot share video directly, and reports benchmark outcomes from participating teams. It positions federated training as a viable approach for privacy-sensitive, spatiotemporal surgical tasks.