2015 MICCAI Challenge
Head and Neck Auto Segmentation Challenge
CALL FOR SUBMISSION
We are pleased to announce the third Head And Neck Auto-Segmentation Challenge, that will be held in conjunction with the “Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions” conference (MICCAI2015) in Munich, Germany.
The primary objective of this challenge is to establish an unbiased benchmark of automatic segmentation performance. It is hoped that this challenge will give valuable feedback both to researchers and the user community about algorithm performance in real world applications. In addition the challenge will provide medical imaging researchers a venue where they can discuss and form collaborations on medical image segmentation for radiotherapy planning.
CHALLENGE FORMAT
Training data
25 training cases, which consist of CT images and manually delineated data of
- brainstem
- mandible
- left and right optic nerves
- optic chiasm
- left and right parotid glands
- left and right submandibular glands
Segmentation data can be downloaded from the PDDCA web site:
The official training cases are found in the files pddca_part1.zip and pddca_part2.zip. Optional additional cases are found in pddca_part3.zip. A detailed description of the manual delineation method is found in pddca.odt.
Test data: part 1
10 test cases without manual segmentations are available for download at http://www.imagenglab.com/data/pddca/test_cases_part1.zip. These cases are segmented by participants, and the results are returned to the challenge organizers. Participants may choose to segment some or all of the structures. Submissions should be sent to the organizers by Sept 11, 2015. The organizers will evaluate these submissions and will present the results at the challenge on Oct 9th, 2015.
Workshop article submission
In addition, all researcher who want to take part at the challenge have to submit papers, which describe the approaches, which have been used for the challenge. Submissions ranging from extended abstracts (2 pages) to full papers (8 pages) will be accepted.
All submissions should be formatted in Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. Please refer to the submission format guidelines of MICCAI 2015. All submissions should be submitted until Sep 19th, 2015. After the challenge and before publishing a revised version including quantitative segmentation results should be prepared by Nov 1, 2015. Submissions will be disseminated through the Midas Journal (http://www.midasjournal.org/).
Test data: part 2
An additional set of between 5 and 10 test cases without manual segmentations will be provided to participants. It is expected that these cases will be segmented by participants during the challenge. The segmentations will be given to, and evaluated by, the challenge organizers on the day of the challenge.
TIMELINE
- Sept 11, 2015 Submission of 10 test cases to organizers
- Sept 19, 2015 Submission of workshop articles to organizers
- Oct 9, 2015 Challenge at MICCAI and evaluation of test cases presented by organizers
- Nov 1, 2015 Final revised papers to organizers
CONTACT INFORMATION
The organizing committee is:
- Karl Fritscher, UMIT
- Patrik Raudaschl, UMIT
- Greg Sharp, MGH
- Paolo Zaffino, UMG
Please send questions to the organizing committee at: headnecksegchallengeMICCAI2015@gmail.com
