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Call for Participation to The Trauma THOMPSON Challenge at MICCAI 2023, Vancouver, BC

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Event: The Trauma THOMPSON Challenge 

Location: Co-located with MICCAI 2023 (Satellite Event)

Date: October 12, 2023

TIME: AM Session

Abstract Submission Deadline: September 8th, 2023

Paper Submission Deadline: September 15th, 2023

Challenge Website: https://thompson-challenge.grand-challenge.org

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Challenge Overview

The primary goal of The Trauma THOMPSON Challenge is to find the best algorithms for automatic action recognition and prediction using machine learning from first-person view in the medical domain (refer to egocentric datasets of medical procedures). We offer the first egocentric view dataset of life-saving intervention (LSI) procedures with detailed annotations by medical professionals. The envisioned algorithms include action recognition, action anticipation, procedure recognition, and visual question answering (VQA). 

The challenge participation details are available on our challenge website.  There will be prizes for the top performers!!!!

Call for Participation and Papers

There will be 2 tracks for this challenge and a total of 4 challenge tasks. All accepted papers will be included in the MICCAI challenge proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume in the challenges subline). We have a leaderboard for each task and submitting a paper (min 4 pages, max 12 pages, LNCS format) is mandatory for a corresponding submission in any task to be eligible in the official ranking. 

 We have prizes for top performing teams in each task and the best paper award. The details are available on our challenge website.

Important Dates

●       Train data release: 11:59 PM EST, Jul. 6th, 2023  

●       Test data release: 11:59 PM EST, Aug. 15th, 2023 

●       Participation declaration form deadline: 11:59 PM EST, Aug. 25th, 2023 \- All teams must enter before this date!

●       Deadline for results submission: 11:59 PM EST, Sep. 1st, 2023

●       Submit your inference code + checkpoint: 11:59 PM EST, Sep. 5th, 2023

●       Abstract submission: 11:59 PM EST, Sep. 8th, 2023

●       Full Paper submission deadline: 11:59 PM EST, Sep. 15th, 2023

●       Winner announcement: 11:59 PM EST, Sep. 22nd, 2023

●       Conference date: AM session, Oct. 8th, 2023

Organizing Committee: Nina Jiang, Yupeng Zhuo, Juan Wachs (Purdue University); Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Jessica McKee (University of Calgary); Kyle Couperus, Christopher Colombo, Oanh Tran, Jonah Beck, DeAnna DeVane, (The Geneva Foundation). 

Contact 

If you have any questions about the Trauma THOMPSON Challenge, please email Nina Jiang (jiang841@purdue.edu” style=”color:rgb(5,99,193)” target=”_blank”>jiang841@purdue.edu), Yupeng Zhuo (zhuoy@purdue.edu” style=”color:rgb(5,99,193)” target=”_blank”>zhuoy@purdue.edu), and Oanh Tran (otran@genevausa.org” style=”color:rgb(5,99,193)” target=”_blank”>otran@genevausa.org).

***Disclaimers: The views expressed are those of the author(s) and do not reflect the official policy of the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government.