Startup Program:OcuFlow

Smartereyesurgerytraining—AIthatturnscataractsurgeryvideointostructured,quantitativefeedback
StartLabs × OneAim Program — Sole Builder of the Product
13 surgical phases0.918 validation accuracy6 pitches, finale at 200+2026 (2 months)
Project Overview

A surgeon uploads a cataract operation. OcuFlow returns a timeline segmented into the 13 canonical surgical phases — from a real, trained deep-learning model (0.918 validation accuracy, above the published Cataract-1K baselines) — then layers on motion analysis of the instruments to answer the question a trainee actually asks: "What did a better surgeon do differently, and am I getting better?"

Under the hood: a ResNet50 + MS-TCN phase model (the published TeCNO recipe, trained on Cataract-1K), hand-labelled instrument tracking at 60 fps via an in-house web labeller with Lucas-Kanade propagation, and per-phase economy-of-movement metrics grounded in the clinical motion-analysis literature — wrapped in a deployed Next.js + FastAPI product with a self-contained investor demo.

Surgical AI
Cataract Phase Recognition
Video Action Segmentation
Skill Assessment
MS-TCN / TeCNO
Economy of Movement
SPARC Smoothness
Lucas-Kanade Tracking
Spectral Motion Analysis
Transfer Learning
PyTorch
Next.js
FastAPI
OpenCV
Docker
Project Metrics

0.918 Accuracy

Phase recognition, 4-fold CV — beats the paper's 0.78–0.85

$0 Compute

All ML trained on a MacBook M2 Pro

60 fps Tracking

Hand-labelled instrument track, 100% coverage