# Operavue

> Operavue works with surgical AI and robotics teams on data collection, clinical review, and model evaluation.

## Company and partnerships

- [Operavue](https://operavue.com/): Operavue works with surgical AI and robotics teams on data collection, clinical review, and model evaluation.
- [About Operavue and the team](https://operavue.com/about): Operavue works with surgical AI and robotics teams on data collection, clinical review, and model evaluation. Team: Dr. Alban Longchamp, Dr. Alex Yang, and Rohan Pavuluri.
- [Careers at Operavue](https://operavue.com/careers): Planned roles and a talent-interest network for research, engineering, clinical capture, data quality, and partnerships. Location preferences include NYC, Boston, San Francisco, London, and Zurich; these are not approved vacancies or office claims.
- [For Surgeons and Hospitals: Recording, Licensing & Expertise](https://operavue.com/surgeons): Operavue buys licenses to egocentric, laparoscopic, and endoscopic surgical video. Explore archive licensing, new recording, or paid clinical expertise.
- [Source Surgical Datasets for Robotics, Devices & AI](https://operavue.com/data-buyers): Discuss surgical video licensing, custom stereoscopic capture, and clinical annotation for robotics, device development, life sciences, and AI research.
- [Guides and tools](https://operavue.com/insights): Practical guides, free templates, a dataset comparison, and local checks for surgical video projects.
- [Surgical video split audit](https://operavue.com/resources/surgical-video-split-audit): Local Python checker, synthetic worked example, expected output, and a versioned MIT-licensed kit.
- [Surgical video data guide](https://operavue.com/surgical-video-data): Research tasks, formats, sourcing routes, and release requirements.
- [Surgical research dataset comparison](https://operavue.com/resources/surgical-video-datasets): 12 third-party research collections compared by setting, image/sequence units, signals, access and reuse limits, with a sourced CSV export.
- [Stereo video storage calculator](https://operavue.com/resources/stereo-video-storage-calculator): Estimate encoded storage and an uncompressed RGB baseline.
- [Surgical robot learning data and signal planner](https://operavue.com/resources/surgical-robot-learning-data): Video, state, action supervision and C-arm registration requirements with a downloadable research brief.
- [Contact Operavue](https://operavue.com/contact): One shared inquiry form for surgeons, hospitals, research teams, and job candidates.
- [Editorial approach](https://operavue.com/editorial): Authorship, primary sources, AI assistance, and corrections.
- [Website privacy](https://operavue.com/privacy): Website information handling and the commitment to HIPAA-compliant data partnerships.
- [Website terms](https://operavue.com/terms): Scope, illustrative content, permissions, and partnership terms.

## Surgical data guides

- [What is surgical video data? A practical guide for AI teams](https://operavue.com/insights/what-is-surgical-video-data): Surgical video data is recorded visual information from an operation, often paired with procedure labels, timestamps, and expert annotations. A useful research dataset combines the footage with documented provenance, permitted uses, quality information, and a clear definition of what the recordings can and cannot show.
- [Stereoscopic vs. monocular surgical video: what buyers should know](https://operavue.com/insights/stereoscopic-vs-monocular-surgical-video): Monocular surgical video records one view. Stereoscopic video records two perspectives that can support depth-related research when geometry, synchronization, and image quality are suitable. Choose the format around the task: paired images alone do not guarantee accurate depth, and neither format automatically supplies robot actions or force measurements.
- [Buying surgical robotics data: a procurement checklist](https://operavue.com/insights/surgical-robotics-data-buyers-checklist): Before buying surgical robotics data, define the task, required signals, source coverage, permitted uses, and acceptance tests. Review representative samples and provenance before committing to volume. Separate visual perception requirements from robot-control requirements, and agree how the supplier will document quality, missing data, annotations, and evaluation splits.
- [How hospitals and data providers can license existing surgical video](https://operavue.com/insights/licensing-existing-surgical-video): Licensing an existing surgical video archive starts with an inventory and a review of who can authorize reuse. Assess recording quality, privacy, institutional requirements, and permitted purposes before sharing files. Then define the specific collection, preparation work, commercial terms, and acceptance process with the proposed data partner.
- [Minimum guarantees and revenue sharing for surgical data partnerships](https://operavue.com/insights/minimum-guarantees-and-revenue-sharing): A minimum guarantee is an agreed payment commitment under defined conditions. A revenue share allocates an agreed portion of qualifying licensing revenue. The contract must state whether the guarantee is recouped from future shares or paid in addition to them, and define eligibility, deductions, reporting, and payment timing.
- [How surgeons can contribute paid expertise to AI development](https://operavue.com/insights/paid-surgeon-expertise-ai): Surgeons can contribute to AI projects through annotation design, expert labeling, dataset review, evaluation, and advisory work. These roles do not necessarily require supplying personal recordings. Useful engagements define the task, required specialty, time commitment, review process, compensation, and any institutional or professional approvals before work begins.
- [Surgical video de-identification: a preparation checklist](https://operavue.com/insights/surgical-video-de-identification): Surgical video privacy review must consider the complete release: images, audio, overlays, filenames, metadata, and linked information. Removing an obvious name or blurring a face is not a complete de-identification assessment. Define the applicable legal pathway, review method, residual-risk assessment, and release approval with qualified privacy and institutional teams.
- [Surgical video annotation: phases, instruments, and action labels](https://operavue.com/insights/surgical-video-annotation): Surgical video annotation adds structured labels to footage, such as procedure phases, instrument presence, or actions. Define the research task, observable evidence, and timestamp conventions before labeling. Assess independent reviewer agreement with an explicit denominator, preserve uncertainty, and document adjudication. Agreement on a label and agreement on its temporal boundaries are separate questions.
- [Planning a 2K stereoscopic surgical capture program](https://operavue.com/insights/planning-2k-stereoscopic-surgical-capture): A surgical stereo capture program needs a defined research brief, institutional approval, workflow owners, exact recording specifications, and a tested release process. Specify resolution per view, synchronization, calibration, storage, and quality criteria. Validate the setup through an approved pilot before expanding collection, with clinical care taking priority throughout.
- [How to evaluate surgical dataset quality and avoid leakage](https://operavue.com/insights/evaluating-surgical-dataset-quality): Evaluate a surgical dataset against a defined research task. Check media, labels, permissions, source coverage, and the independence of evaluation data. Keep related frames, clips, views, and repeat patient recordings together when the protocol requires it. Case, patient, site, and device holdouts test different claims; document which separation you actually achieved.
- [Surgical video for medical device development: scoping the evidence](https://operavue.com/insights/surgical-video-for-medical-device-development): Medical device teams can use appropriately sourced surgical video to study visible instrument interactions, procedural context, and AI research tasks. Define the research question and how the results will be evaluated. Video alone does not establish device effectiveness, patient benefit, or regulatory readiness; those claims require their own evidence and review.
- [Surgical video in life sciences and perioperative research](https://operavue.com/insights/surgical-video-life-sciences-research): Surgical video can provide procedural context for life sciences and perioperative research when it answers a defined observational question. Any linkage to treatment, pathology, clinical records, or outcomes requires separate scoping and permissions. Footage alone cannot establish drug efficacy, causality, or a validated clinical endpoint.
- [Imaging-to-surgical-plan datasets: what must be paired?](https://operavue.com/insights/imaging-to-surgical-plan-datasets): An imaging-to-surgical-plan dataset pairs the source scan with a defined planning target, its version, and the evidence used to create it. Record which image series informed the plan, who reviewed it, and which information was available at the intended decision point. Segmentation masks alone do not specify an operative plan.
- [Patient-specific implant datasets: from CT to design](https://operavue.com/insights/ct-to-patient-specific-implant-datasets): A patient-specific implant dataset needs more than CT scans and a 3D file. Link the source images, anatomy representation, design requirements, and exact implant version. Record geometry units, coordinate mapping, and the review evidence for that version. A segmentation or viewer screenshot is not a substitute for an agreed implant-geometry target.

## Scope

This public website describes partnership opportunities and educational guides. The public dataset comparison links to third-party research collections; Operavue does not own, host, or sell those datasets. Downloadable templates contain synthetic examples, not clinical data or available inventory. The website does not accept patient records or surgical video uploads. Capture specifications, availability, rights, and compensation are agreed per partnership.

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