[Insight-users] ISBI call for challenges

[Stephen Aylward]

*** Due to inconsistencies in the advertised due-date for submitting ISBI
grand challenges, the final due-date for submitting a grand challenge
proposal has been moved to November 1, 2012.  ***


ISBI Call for Challenges


The ISBI 2013 Conference is soliciting proposals for scientific challenges.
The aim of the challenges is to accelerate the pace of research by hosting
quantitative comparisons of competing approaches on common datasets.

Each challenge needs an organizer(s), who will be responsible for providing
training and testing data, defining the tasks, specifying the metrics,
managing entries, and conducting the studies and on-site presentations.
 The format of each challenge is up to the organizer(s) and should be
detailed in the proposal.  Live, on-site evaluations are encouraged.  There
should be presentations by the top scoring teams. ISBI will assist in
advertising challenges, but the organizer(s) is ultimately responsible for
challenge participation and success.

Challenges will be held on the last day of the ISBI conference, Thursday,
April 11th, 2013.  Each challenge will be allocated to a half-day session.

For more information on the ISBI 2013 conference, please visit:
        http://www.biomedicalimaging.org/2013/


Important Challenge Dates
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        Challenge Proposal Deadline:
     November 1, 2012
        Notification of Acceptance:
            December 1, 2012
        Challenge Announcements (Tasks, Data, and Metrics):
January 4, 2013
        Summary of Challenge Participants:
     February 1, 2013


How to Submit Challenge Proposal
==========================

To propose a challenge, a PDF file containing the following information
must be sent to the ISBI 2013 Contest Co-Chairs:
        Stephen Aylward <Stephen.aylward(at)Kitware.com>
        Bram van Ginneken <b.vanginneken(at)rad.umcn.nl>

Please include the following in the PDF:
        1.      Contest title and abstract
        2.      Name and contact information of the main organizer and at
least 2 other expert committee members
        3.      General description of the problem
        4.      Description of the dataset to be used and allocation to
training and testing
        5.      Description of the actual competition tasks
        6.      Evaluation metrics
        7.      Plan of how to organize the contest
        8.      Estimated number of participants
        9.      Other points that should be taken into account are as
follows:
                •       The dataset should be interesting, available, and
sufficiently large.
                •       The tasks should be interesting and novel, but also
accessible without too much domain specific knowledge.
                •       The evaluation metrics should be clear and easy to
apply. Supplying implementations in C++ or Python is ideal.

All submissions will be acknowledged by email.



Reference Material
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ISBI 2012 Challenges
http://www.biomedicalimaging.org/2012/index.php/programme/isbi-challenges

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Stephen R. Aylward, Ph.D.
Senior Director of Operations - North Carolina
Kitware, Inc. - North Carolina Office
http://www.kitware.com
stephen.aylward (Skype)
(919) 969-6990 x300
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