Method for operating a surgical microscope, and surgical microscope

A surgical microscope comprising:

• a left-side camera adapted to capture a left-side image representation of a capture region of the surgical microscope,
• a right-side camera adapted to capture a right-side image representation of the capture region,
• an actuator system adapted to set a configuration of the surgical microscope according to microscope parameters, and
• a control device, wherein the control device is adapted to make available at least one trained machine learning method and/or computer vision evaluation method, to feed the captured left-side image representation and the captured right-side image representation as input data to the at least one trained machine learning method and/or computer vision evaluation method,
• wherein the at least one trained machine learning method and/or computer vision evaluation method is adapted and/or trained to identify a target object in the captured image representations and to determine a type of the target object and a position of the target object in the image representations during the identification of the target object, and to estimate and provide herefor optimum microscope parameters and/or a change in microscope parameters and/or control commands for the actuator system on the basis of the captured image representations,
• wherein the control device is further adapted to generate control commands for the actuator system of the surgical microscope from the estimated optimum microscope parameters and/or the estimated change in microscope parameters and/or to control the actuator system of the surgical microscope according to the generated and/or estimated control commands, wherein the at least one trained machine learning method and/or computer vision evaluation method estimates and provides a confidence value for each estimated output, wherein the estimated output comprises the identified target object, wherein the control device is further adapted to compare the confidence value provided with a specified threshold value and to stop the control device if the confidence value provided is below the specified threshold value.