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DECLARATIONS
Authors’ contributions
Conceptualization, methodology, software, validation, formal analysis, investigation, data curation, visualiza-
tion, writing - original draft: Wei R
Conceptualization, formal analysis, writing - review and editing: Guo J
Conceptualization, writing - review and editing: Lu Y, Zhong F
Conceptualization, resources, formal analysis, Writing review and editing, supervision: Liu Y, Sun D, Dou Q

Availability of data and materials
Stereo Correspondence And Reconstruction of Endoscopic Data (SCARED) is publicly available at https://en
dovissub2019-scared.grand-challenge.org.

Financial support and sponsorship
This research work was supported in part by Shenzhen Portion of Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technol-
ogy Innovation Cooperation Zone under HZQB-KCZYB-20200089, in part by Hong Kong Research Grants
Council Project No. T42-409/18-R, and in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China Project No.
62322318.

Conflicts of interest
All authors declared that there are no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval and consent to participate
As our research does not deal with any patient data or broadly, we did not obtain an institutional review board
(IRB) for this study.

Consent for publication
Not applicable.

Copyright
© The Author(s) 2024.

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