Revision as of 22:20, 26 May 2015

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:

• http://www.imagenglab.com/pddca_18.html

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 will be made available for download. 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. These cases are segmented by participants, and the results are returned to the challenge organizers prior to the end of the challenge.

TIMELINE

• Sept 11, 2015 Submission of 10 test cases to organizers
• Sept 19, 2015 Submission of papers due
• Oct 9, 2015 Evaluation of 10 test cases complete
• Nov 1, 2015 Final revised papers due

CONTACT INFORMATION

The organizing committee is:

• Karl Fritscher, UMIT
• Patrik Raudaschl, UMIT
• Greg Sharp, MGH
• Paolo Zaffino, MGU

Please send questions to the organizing committee at: headnecksegchallenge2015@gmail.com.