CLARIS
AI surgical visualisation
Company describes AI-powered software that enhances intraoperative visualisation by removing electrocautery smoke plume and debris in real time, and provides a cleaner visual input for surgical AI models.
Learn moreMontréal company developing CLARIS, AI software that removes surgical smoke and debris from minimally invasive surgery video in real time to give surgeons, and downstream surgical AI models, a clearer view.

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Montréal company developing CLARIS, AI software that removes surgical smoke and debris from minimally invasive surgery video in real time to give surgeons, and downstream surgical AI models, a clearer view.
Operates as Vope Medical Inc., federal corporation 1324256-1, status Active, registered office on rue du Square-Victoria in Montréal; its co-founders hold control. ised-isde.canada.ca
NRC IRAP contributed $85,000 (October 2025 to March 2026) for CLARIS real-time AI-driven surgical image clarification. search.open.canada.ca
Selected in INOVAIT's June 2026 AI image-guided therapy funding to evaluate CLARIS with University Health Network; per-project awards are up to $150,000 and Vope's amount is not published. inovait.ca
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AI surgical visualisation
Company describes AI-powered software that enhances intraoperative visualisation by removing electrocautery smoke plume and debris in real time, and provides a cleaner visual input for surgical AI models.
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Collaborating with Vope Medical to evaluate CLARIS under INOVAIT's 2026 image-guided therapy funding.
Government support actually received. Unpublished amounts are left out.
NRC IRAP — CLARIS real-time AI surgical image clarification
INOVAIT — AI-powered image-guided therapy R&D (with University Health Network)
INOVAIT funded ten projects; Vope Medical, with University Health Network, will evaluate CLARIS. INOVAIT's $1.35M commitment covers all ten projects, with each receiving up to $150,000.
vopemed researchers published a Frontiers in Surgery study quantifying how lens obstructions such as smoke affect minimally invasive surgery.
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