All Challenges
Here is an overview of all challenges that have been organized within the area of medical image analysis that we are aware of. If you know any study that would fit in this overview, or want to advertise your challenge, please send an email to support@grand-challenge.org and we will add the challenge to the list on this page.
2018
HC18
Automated measurement of fetal head circumference using 2D ultrasound images
PROSTATEx
Classification of clinical significance of prostate lesions using multi-parametric MRI data
Peripheral Artery:Vein Enhanced Segmentation (PAVES)
Peripheral Artery:Vein Enhanced Segmentation (PAVES) is the challenge focussed on providing easily interpretable and relevant images that can be readily understood by clinicians (vascular interventional radiologists & vascular surgeons) from MRA datasets where the venous and arterial vasculature may be equally enhanced. The setting is lower limb arterial occlusive disease where imaging of the below knee arterial vasculature is critical in planning limb salvage interventions. However, the competing demands of the high spatial resolution needed to image small vessels versus imaging time constraints where there is often a very short arteriovenous transit time for contrast passage form arterial to venous compartments makes imaging challenging. While dynamic MRA techniques can usually allow arterial imaging without venous ‘contamination’ these necessarily sacrifice spatial resolution.
Multi-Organ Nuclei Segmentation Challenge
MICCAI 2018 challenge for Multi-organ nuclei segmentation from H&E stained histopathological images.
Medical Segmentation Decathlon
The MSD challenge tests the generalisability of machine learning algorithms when applied to 10 different semantic segmentation task.
REFUGE
The goal of the Retinal Fundus Glaucoma Challenge (REFUGE) is to evaluate and compare automated algorithms for glaucoma detection and optic disc/cup segmentation on a common dataset of retinal fundus images.
Correction of Brainshift with Intra-Operative Ultrasound
MICCAI Challenge 2018 for Correction of Brainshift with Intra-Operative Ultrasound
The Continuous Registration Challenge
Submit your method for lung and brain registration on https://github.com/SuperElastix/SuperElastix! Your method is easily accessible to end-users and automatically compiled, tested, and benchmarked weekly on several different data sets.
LUMIC
The LUMIC challenge tests the accuracy in registration between pre- and post-contrast CT chest images for algorithms, using an anthropomophic digital phantom.
IDRiD
This challenge evaluates automated techniques for analysis of fundus photographs. We target segmentation of retinal lesions like exudates, microaneurysms, and hemorrhages and detection of the optic disc and fovea. Also, we seek grading of fundus images according to the severity level of DR and DME.
ICIAR2018-Challenge
Can you develop a method for automatic detection of cancerous regions in breast cancer histology images?
EndoVis
As an endoscopic vision CAI challenge at MICCAI, our aim is to provide a formal framework for evaluating the current state of the art, gather researchers in the field and provide high quality data with protocols for validating endoscopic vision algorithms.
RSNA Pneumonia Detection Challenge
Automatically detect a visual signal for pneumonia in chest x-rays.
ImageCLEF Tuberculosis 2018
Assess the probability of a TB patient having resistant form of tuberculosis based on the analysis of chest CT scan, automatically categorize each TB case into one of the following five types: (1) Infiltrative, (2) Focal, (3) Tuberculoma, (4) Miliary, (5) Fibro-cavernous and assessing TB severity score.
Multi-shell diffusion MRI harmonisation and enhancement
The aim of the challenge is the systematic evaluation of the performance of algorithms that enable the harmonisation of muti-shell DW MRI data from clinically available Siemens Prisma Scanner and the state-of-the-art Siemens Connectome Scanner. On the one hand, algorithms will be tested for their ability of harmonising the same DW MRI protocol across different MRI scanners. On the other hand, algorithms will be tested for their ability of enhancing the quality of routine DW MRI data sets to resemble the latest state-of-the-art acquisitions, via extrapolation of information that was not acquired given a set of training examples.
Dermoscopic Skin Lesion Analysis Toward Melanoma Detection
The goal of this recurring challenge is to help participants develop image analysis tools to enable the automated diagnosis of melanoma from dermoscopic images. There are three separate tasks: lesion segmentation, lesion attribute detection and disease classification.
Intervertebral Disc Segmentation Challenge
The goal of MICCAI 2018 Challenge on Automatic IVD Localization and Segmentation from 3D Multi-modality MR (M3) Images is to investigate (semi-)automatic IVD localization and segmentation algorithms and provide a standard evaluation framework with a set of multi-modality MR images acquired with Dixon protocol.
MR Brain Image Segmentation
The purpose of this challenge is to directly compare methods for segmentation of gray matter, white matter, cerebrospinal fluid, and other structures on 3T MRI scans of the brain, and to assess the effect of (large) pathologies on segmentation and volumetry.
18F-FDG PET Radiomics Risk Stratifiers in Head and Neck Cancer
Contestants are tasked to predict, using primary tumor 18F-FDG PET-derived radiomics features +/- matched clinical data, whether a tumor arising from the oropharynx will be controlled by definitive radiation treatment (RT).
3-D Validation of Tractography with Experimental MRI
This challenge addresses the validation of 3D diffusion MRI fiber tractography. The task is to provide the most accurate reconstruction of fiber pathways in both a physical phantom and real brain tissue.
Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Challenge 2018
BraTS 2018 utilizes multi-institutional pre-operative MRI scans and focuses on the segmentation of intrinsically heterogeneous (in appearance, shape, and histology) brain tumors, namely gliomas. Furthemore, to pinpoint the clinical relevance of this segmentation task, BraTS’18 also focuses on the prediction of patient overall survival, via integrative analyses of radiomic features and machine learning algorithms.
Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation 2018
ISLES 2018 asks for methods that allow the segmentation of stroke lesions based on acute CT perfusion data. A data set of 103 stroke patients and matching expert segmentations are provided.
Pancreatic Cancer Survival Prediction Challenge
Predict overall survival based on predictors derived from contrast-enhanced liver CT scans and patient clinical variables.
Combined Radiology and Pathology Classification
Classify a cohort of lower grade glioma tumor cases into two sub-types: Oligodendroglioma and Astrocytoma when information from two types of imaging data – Radiology images and Pathology images – is used.
Data Challenge JFR 2018
This challenge is organised by the French Society on Radiology. After a first phase of collecting medical imaging across France, different challenges will be launch on different organs and different modalities. The results of the challenge will be announced during the French Days of Radiology (12-15 October).
Medical Segmentation Decathlon
Develop a generalizable learning algorithms for 10 different semantic segmentation tasks.
Digital Pathology: Segmentation of Nuclei in Images
Detect and segment all the nuclear material in a given set of image tiles extracted from whole slide tissue images.
Data Science Bowl 2018
Create an algorithm to automate nucleus detection from a variety of brightfield and fluorescence images.
2017
ROCC
Retinal OCT Classification Challenge (ROCC) is organized as a one day Challenge in conjunction with MVIP2017. The goal of this challenge is to call different automated algorithms that are able to detect DR disease from normal retina on a common dataset of OCT volumes, acquired with Topcon SD-OCT devices.
LCTSC
This challenge will provide a platform for comparison of various automatic/semi-automatic segmentation algorithms when they are used to delineate organs at risk from CT images for thoracic radiation treatment planning.
TADPOLE
The Alzheimer’s Disease Prediction Of Longitudinal Evolution (TADPOLE) challenge is brought to you by the EuroPOND consortium in collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI).
CATARACTS
The Challenge on Automatic Tool Annotation for cataRACT Surgery aims at evaluating image-based tool detection algorithms in the context of the most common surgical procedure in the world.
RETOUCH
The goal of the Retinal OCT Fluid Challenge is to compare automated algorithms that are able to detect and segment various types of retinal fluid lesions on a common dataset of optical coherence tomography (OCT) volumes representing different retinal diseases, acquired with devices from different manufacturers.
CAMELYON17
Automated detection and classification of breast cancer metastases in whole-slide images of histological lymph node sections. This task has high clinical relevance and would normally require extensive microscopic assessment by pathologists.
ImageCLEF Tuberculosis 2017
Assess the probability of a TB patient having resistant form of tuberculosis based on the analysis of chest CT scan, and automatically categorize each TB case into one of the following five types: Infiltrative, Focal, Tuberculoma, Miliary, Fibro-cavernous
TraCED
The goal of TraCED is to assess the reproducibility of common and emerging fiber tracking pipelines/algorithms using clinically feasible MR imaging sequences.
LiTS - Liver Tumor Segmentation
We encourage researchers to develop automatic segmentation algorithms to segment liver lesions in contrast-enhanced abdomen CT scans. The data and segmentations are provided by various clinical sites around the world.
ENIGMA Cerebellum
This challenge investigates progress in cerebellum lobule segmentation and labeling, structured around three MRI datasets.
WMH Segmentation Challenge
This challenge directly compares methods for the automatic segmentation of white matter hyperintensities of presumed vascular origin from FLAIR and T1-weighted MR images.
6-month infant brain MRI segmentation
iSeg-2017 compares (semi-)automatic algorithms for the segmentation of 6-month infant brain tissues and the measurement of corresponding structures using T1- and T2-weighted brain MRI scans.
Tissue Microarray Analysis for Thyroid Cancer
Tissue microarrays (TMAs) can provide new biomarkers that could be of value in diagnosis, predicting outcome and response to therapy. Goal of this challenge is to build predictions models for thyroid cancer from TMAs.
Cervical Cancer Screening
Develop an algorithm which accurately identifies a woman’s cervix type from images. Doing so will prevent ineffectual treatments and helps referral for cases that require more advanced treatment.
Coronary Artery Reconstruction Challenge
CoronARe compares state-of-the-art methods in terms of 3D reconstruction accuracy of coronary arteries from interventional C-arm rotational angiography.
Pediatric Bone Age Challenge
Develop an algorithm which can most accurately determine skeletal age on a validation set of pediatric hand radiographs, using a large data set of over 12,000 images.
Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation 2017
ISLES 2017 asks for methods that predict stroke lesion outcome based on acute MRI data. A multi-spectral data set of 48 stroke patients and matching expert segmentations are provided.
Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Challenge 2017
BraTS 2017 utilizes multi‐institutional pre‐operative MRI scans and focuses on the segmentation of intrinsically heterogeneous (in appearance, shape, and histology) brain tumors, namely gliomas. Furthermore, in order to pinpoint the clinical relevance of this segmentation task, BraTS’17 also focuses on the prediction of patient overall survival, via integrative analyses of radiomic features and machine learning algorithms.
PROSTATEx
Offline challenge for the diagnostic classification of clinically significant prostate lesions using quantitatve image analysis methods. Continued live in https://prostatex.grand-challenge.org/
Multi-Modality Whole Heart Segmentation
Develop an algorithm for multi-modality whole heart segmentation from cardiac CT and MRI images.
Data Science Bowl 2017
Can you improve the detection of lung cancer? Given a CT scan, predict if someone has lung cancer. The 2017 Data Science Bowl has $1 million in prizes.
Prostatex-2 Challenge
Offline challenge to predict the Gleason Grade for a prostate MRI exam consisting of axial and sagittal T2-weighted images, Ktrans images (computed from dynamic contrast-enhanced), and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) images. Continued in https://prostatex.grand-challenge.org/
Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection
Segment, analyze and diagnose skin cancer from dermoscopic images provided by the International Skin Imaging Collaboration.
ACDC
Develop an algorithm for MRI cardiac segmentation AND/OR predict pathology of different patients given cardiac MRI images.
2016
LUNA16
The LUNA16 challenge will focus on a large-scale evaluation of automatic nodule detection algorithms for chest CT.
ISBI-AIDA
ISBI Endoscopic Image Challenge
CAMELYON16
The goal of this challenge is to evaluate new and existing algorithms for automated detection of cancer metastasis in digitized lymph node tissue sections. Two large datasets from both the Radboud University Medical Center and the University Medical Center Utrecht are provided.
Low Dose CT Grand Challenge
Quantitatively assess the diagnostic performance of denoising and iterative reconstruction techniques on common low-dose patient CT datasets using a detection task.
Modeling and Monitoring of Computer Assisted Interventions (M2CA
To develop a surgical workflow monitoring system by detecting both the surgical workflow and identifying all surgical tools that are present in an image.
Kaggle: Second Annual Data Science Bowl
Declining cardiac function is a key indicator of heart disease. The 2015 Data Science Bowl challenges you to create an algorithm to automatically measure end-systolic and end-diastolic volumes in cardiac MRIs.
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Outcome Prediction (mTOP)
Its aim is to create a common ground to compare methods to find predictive MRI features, which help to characterise and distinguish mild traumatic brain injury patients from each other and healthy subjects.
HVSMR 2016
This challenge is about segmenting the blood pool and myocardium from a 3D cardiovascular magnetic resonance images.
xVertSegt
The tasks of the xVertSeg challenge are: To segment vertebrae from the given spine images that include fractured and non-fractured cases. To classify vertebrae from the given spine images into fractured and non-fractured cases along with specific morphological grades and cases of vertebral fractures.
Computational Methods & Clinical Applications for Spine Imaging
Automatic Intervertebral Disc Localization and Segmentation from 3D Multi-modality MR (M3) Images.
Statistical Atlases and Computational Modelling of the Heart - S
This challenge focuses on algorithms for segmentation of left atrial wall thickness from MRI and CT.
Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection
The overarching goal of the challenge is to develop image analysis tools to enable the automated diagnosis of melanoma from dermoscopic images.
Single Molecule Localization Microscopy Challenge
Focus on two key unaddressed areas in the field of localisation microscopy: 3D and Ultra High-density 2D intended for live cell applications.
BigNeuron
BigNeuron is a community effort to define and advance state-of-the-art of single neuron reconstruction: an essential unsolved challenge in brain science.
Computational Precision Medicine
The increase in volume and variety of multi modal cancer data along with advances in computational power and analytics have given rise to challenges and opportunities in determining optimal strategies for development of systems for clinical decision support and advancement of precision medicine.
Computing and Visualization for Intravascular Imaging and Comput
This workshop brings together two MICCAI-Workshop series (CVII and STENT) in order to form a common event on technological and scientific research concerned with endovascular procedures.
Circuit Reconstruction from Electron Microscopy Images (CREMI)
The goal of this challenge is to evaluate algorithms for automatic reconstruction of neurons and neuronal connectivity from serial section electron microscopy data.
Digital Mammography DREAM Challenge
Develop algorithms to classify screening digital mammography images as low and high risk for developing cancer. Thousands of digitized mammograms and outcome data are available for training.
Tumor Proliferation Assessment Challenge (TUPAC)
Evaluate methods that predict the tumor proliferation score directly from whole-slide images.
Multiple Sclerosis Segmentation (MSSEG)
MS lesions segmentation as part of the effort towards automatic segmentation of MRI scans of MS patients.
Ultrasound Nerve Segmentation
Identify nerve structures in ultrasound images of the neck. The task in this competition is to segment a collection of nerves called the Brachial Plexus (BP) in ultrasound images.
ImageCLEFmed: Medical Task 2016
ImageCLEFmed 2016 consist of two tasks: analyze compound figures of the biomedical literature and provide a hierarchical classification of body parts in bone x-ray images.
Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation 2016
The ISLES 2016 challenge treats the challenging problem of stroke lesion/clinical outcome prediction from acute MRI scans. They provide acute MRI scans of a large number of acute stroke cases and associated clinical parameters. The associated ground truth is the final lesion volume (Task I) as manually segmented in 3 to 9 month follow-up scans, and the clinical mRM score (Task II) denoting the degree of disability.
Positron Emission Tomography Segmentation (PETSEG)
Automated segmentation of PET images for the delineation of tumor volumes
Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Challenge 2016
Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS), making available a large dataset of brain tumor MR scans in which the relevant tumor structures have been delineated.
2015
ANATOMY3
The VISCERAL Anatomy3 challenge is a continuation and extension of two earlier challenges on whole-body labelling in 3D medical images. Its goal is the segmentation of abdominal organs and the localization of anatomical landmarks.
Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation 2015
ISLES 2015 is a two-task challenge of automatic methods for sub-acute ischemic stroke lesion segmentation and acute stroke penumbra estimation. Versatile multi-center data, two expert segmentations and extensive automatized evaluation.
Gland Segmentation Challenge
Gland morphology is used to assess the degree of malignancy of several adenocarcinomas, including prostate, breast, lung, and colon. This challenge evaluates gland segmentation algorithms on images of H&E stained slides, consisting of a variety of histologic grades.
Shape 2015 - Statistical Shape Model Challenge
The task is to complete 10 partial liver segmentation from a set of segmented training datasets.
Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Challenge 2015
Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS), making available a large dataset of brain tumor MR scans in which the relevant tumor structures have been delineated. Each data set has T1 MRI, T1 contrast-enhanced MRI, T2 MRI, and T2 FLAIR MRI volumes
Longitudinal Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation Challenge
Competing teams will apply their automatic lesion segmentation algorithms to MR neuroimaging data acquired at multiple time points from MS patients. Algorithms will be evaluated against manual segmentations from multiple raters in terms of their segmentation accuracy and ability to track lesion evolution.
NEATBrainS15
Evaluates and investigates automated segmentation of gray matter, white matter and cerebrospinal fluid on both the NeoBrainS12 and MRBrainS13 datasets.
Bitewing Radiography Caries Detection Challenge
Investigates automated methods for detection of caries in 120 bitewing X-ray images collected from 120 patients.
Cephalometric X-ray image analysis Challenge
Benchmarks automated detection and statistical analysis on cephalometric x-ray images of 400 patients.
The Second Overlapping Cervical Cytology Image Segmentation Chal
Investigates cell detection and cell segmentation for the automated analysis of multi-layer cytology volumes.
Cell Tracking Challenge
Compare and evaluate state-of-the-art whole-cell and nucleus tracking methods using both real (2D and 3D) time-lapse microscopy videos of labeled cells and nuclei, along with computer generated video sequences simulating nuclei moving in realistic environments
ImageCLEFmed: Medical classification
A task targeted at the identification, multi-label classifcation and separation of compound figures from biomedical literature.
Lung nodule classification challenge
Evaluates quantitative image-analysis methods for the diagnostic classification of malignant and benign lung nodules. Training set to be released November 21st.
ISMRM 2015 Tractography Challenge
This challenge evaluates and compares tractography pipelines: provide the best possible reconstruction of fiber pathways in a realistically simulated whole brain diffusion-weighted MR image.
Noninvasive Biomarkers for Liver Fibrosis
Requires only a written proposal describing specific and sensitive biomarker(s) that are highly associated with liver fibrosis and could be used as a surrogate for clinical efficacy and ideally, could guide treatment selection.
LV statical shape modeling: myocardial infarction
Models the statistical shape of the left ventricle (LV) to detect myocardial infarction. training comprises 100 cases with myocardial infarction 100 asymptomatic cases from the Cardiac Atlas Project.
Liver Ultrasound Tracking (CLUST 2015)
Presents the current state-of-the-art in automated tracking of anatomical landmarks in the liver and compares different methods
Kaggle: Diabetic Retinopathy Detection
Identify signs of diabetic retinopathy in eye images. This Kaggle competition offers 100,000 dollars in prize awards.
Multi-Atlas Labeling Beyond the Cranial Vault
Evaluates multi-atlas segmentation algorithms on a newly created and released standardized dataset of abdominal and pelvic anatomy on clinically acquired CT
MICCAI Spine Workshop & Challenge
The first challenge concerns vertebral fracture analysis, the second challenge is on intervertebral disc localization and segmentation.
OPTIMA Retinal Cyst Segmentation Challenge
Brings together and furthers research in the area of retinal cyst segmentation, a key indicator of sight degrading diseases such as RVO and AMD, in SD-OCT ophthalmic imaging. Organised by the OPTIMA lab, Medical University of Vienna.
Head and Neck Auto Segmentation
Benchmarks automatic segmentation performance. Provides 25 CT images with manually delineated data of brainstem, mandible, left and right optic nerves, optic chiasm, left and right parotid glands and submandibular glands.
White Matter Modelling Challenge 2015
Aims to identify the mathematical model for diffusion MRI that best describes the signal from in-vivo Human Brain White Matter acquired on the Connectom scanner with gradients of up to 300mT/m.
2014
MITOS-ATYPIA-14
MITOS & ATYPIA 14 Contest, hosted by conference ICPR 2014
Detection of mitosis and evaluation of nuclear atypia on breast cancer H&E stained images
CADDementia
We seek algorithms that perform multi-class classification of patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and healthy controls (CN) using multi-center structural MRI data.
Liver CT Annotation Task
The Liver CT Annotation Task targets automatic annotation of 3D liver CT data by filling a form of imaging observations at the liver, vessel and lesion levels. The form is built based on a novel open source ontology (ONLIRA) of liver in radiology.
Shape 2014 - Statistical Shape Model Challenge
The Shape Symposium hosts the first Grand Challenge in Statistical Shape Modeling. The task is to build a model of the liver from a set of segmented training datasets.
Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Challenge 2014
Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS). It contains three sub-challenges. 1: Segmentation of brain tumor (GBM) and its components, 2: Longitudinal Evaluation of time series image data and 3: Classification into Low- and and High Grade (GBM) gliomas.
DTI Tractography Challenge
This workshop evaluates the performances of tractography algorithms in the reconstruction of peritumoral anatomy and corticospinal tract trajectory on pre-operative and post-operative diffusion data from patients with tumors in or near the motor system.
3D Deconvolution Microscopy
Deconvolution is one of the most common image-reconstruction tasks in 3D fluorescence microscopy. This challenge benchmarks existing deconvolution algorithms and to stimulate the community to look for novel, global and practical approaches to this problem.
CETUS
This challenge compares left ventricle segmentation methods for both End Diastolic and End Systolic phase instances in 3D cardiac ultrasound.
Brain Tumor Digital Pathology Challenge
Evaluation of classification of LGG and GBM, and segmentation of necrotic and normal brain regions from high-res digital pathology slide clinical cases.
Cell Tracking Challenge (2nd Edition)
This challenge compares and evaluate state-of-the-art whole-cell and nucleus tracking methods using both real and artificial 2D and 3D time-lapse microscopy videos of fluorescently labeled cells and nuclei moving in realistic environments.
Bone Texture Characterization
The evaluation of osteoporotic disease from bone radiograph images presents a major challenge for pattern recognition and medical applications. The goal is to identify osteoporotic cases from healthy controls on 2D bone radiograph images, using texture analysis.
VISCERALdetection - Lesion Detection Benchmark 2014
The objective is to detect various lesions in anatomical regions such as the bones, liver, brain, lung, or lymph nodes in CT and MR volumes. There are overall 308 annotated lesions annotated through medical experts.
MICCAI 2014 Machine Learning Challenge
Machine-learning practitioners can try out their favorite (novel or not) supervised learning algorithm(s) on brain imaging (neuroimaging) data for clinically relevant prediction problems.
CLUST14
This challenge presents the current state-of-the-art in automated tracking of anatomical landmarks in liver ultrasound images and compare different methods.
orCaScore
The orCaScore challenge compares methods for automatic and semi-automatic coronary artery calcium scoring in cardiac CT scans.
VISCERAL Benchmark 2
In this benchmark we will evaluate segmentation and detection algorithms on a large dataset of clinical wide-field-of-view MRI and CT scans. Major organs and substructures have been manually delineated, and anatomical interest points or landmarks have been set.
Spine and Vertebra Segmentation Challenge
Provides a database of 10 spine CT scans along with manual segmentation of the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae for development, training and testing of spine segmentation algorithms. Five more data sets will be provided for the evaluation phase of the challenge.
Overlapping Cervical Cytology Image Segmentation Challenge
Detection and segmentation of overlapping cells is a major hurdle for robust cervical cell analysis. In this challenge, the targets are to extract the boundaries of individual cytoplasm and nucleus from Pap smear microscopy images.
Cephalometric X-Ray Landmark Detection
The goal of this challenge is to investigate a suitable automatic landmark detection technology for cephalometric x-ray images and provide a standard evaluation framework with a clinical dataset.
2013
CRASS
CRASS stands for Chest Radiograph Anatomical Structure Segmentation. The challenge currently invites participants to send in results for clavicle segmentation algorithms.
subsolidNodules
We are presenting results of our segmentation method for subsolid lung nodules.
3D Deconvolution Microscopy
The aim of this challenge is to benchmark existing deconvolution algorithms and to stimulate the community to look for novel, global and practical approaches to this problem.
Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Challenge 2013
Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS), making available a large dataset of brain tumor MRscans in which the tumor and edema regions have been manually delineated,adding another 20 multimodal image volume from high and low grade gliomapatients to the BRATS 2012 data set. All images – in both the publiclydistributed training data set, and the blinded test data set- are annotatedthrough clinical experts who annotated four different types of tumor substructurs(edema, enhancing core, non-enhancing core, necrotic core).
VISCERAL Benchmark 1
VISCERAL is an EU funded project in which various benchmarks are organized. The first Benchmark focuses on whole body labelling in 3D medical imaging data.
MR Brain Image Segmentation 2013
The MRBrainS evaluation framework compares algorithms for segmentation of grey matter, white matter and cerebrospinal fluid on multi-sequence (T1-weighted, T1-weighted inversion recovery and FLAIR) 3 Tesla MRI scans of the brain.
AMIDA13
Mitotic activity is one of the strongest prognosticators for invasive breast carcinoma. This challenge evaluates and compares (semi-)automatic mitotic figure detection methods on regions extracted from whole-slide pathology images.
ASPS13
Automated Segmentation of Prostate Structures (ASPS)
Cell Tracking Challenge 2013
Manually tracking cells is an extremely laborious task, due to the large amount of image data acquired during live-cell studies. This challenge compares automatic approaches for cell tracking.
2012
PROMISE12
The goal of this challenge is to compare interactive and (semi)-automatic segmentation algorithms for MRI of the prostate.
VESSEL12
The VESSEL12 challenge compares methods for automatic (and semi-automatic) segmentation of blood vessels in the lungs from CT images.
High angular resolution diffusion imaging 2012
High angular resolution diffusion imaging 2012
NeoBrainS12
The aim of the NeoBrainS12 challenge is to compare (semi-)automatic algorithms for segmentation of neonatal brain tissues (cortical and central grey matter, non-myelinated and myelinated white matter, brainstem and cerebellum, and cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles and in the extracerebral space) using T1- and T2-weighted MRI scans of the brain.
Segmentation of neuronal structures in EM stacks
In this challenge, a full stack of EM slices will be used to train machine learning algorithms for the purpose of automatic segmentation of neural structures.
Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Challenge 2012
Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS), making available a large dataset of brain tumor MR scans in which the tumor and edema regions have been manually delineated. In addition, we also provide realistically generated synthetic brain tumor datasets for which the ground truth segmentation is known.
Particle tracking challenge 2012
Quantitative analysis of dynamic processes in biological cells requires accurate tracking of large numbers of particles in time-lapse microscopy images. This challenge objectively compares the performance of particle tracking algorithms for this purpose.
Challenge US 2012: Biometric measurements from fetal ultrasound
This is a segmentation challenge for automatically segmenting anatomical structures to measure standard obstetric biometric parameters, from 2D fetal ultrasound images.
2011
LOLA11
The goal of LOLA11 (LObe and Lung Analysis 2011) is to compare methods for (semi-)automatic segmentation of the lungs and lobes from chest computed tomography scans. Any team, whether from academia or industry, can join.
Cancer Imaging Archive Collections
A public access repository of datasets spanning several modalities and anatomical sites.
Lumen + External Elastic Laminae Border Detection in IVUS Challe
This challenge provides IVUS pullback datasets from different frequencies with various degrees of difficulty. Aim is to evaluate segmentation of the inner wall (lumen) and outer wall (media/adventitia).
Cardiac Motion Analysis Challenge 2011
The objective of this challenge is to evaluate the accuracy and reproducibility of different motion analysis algorithms applied to a multimodal cardiac database. The database includes a dataset from a dynamic phantom1 and 15 datasets from healthy volunteers.
2010
SKI10
Knee cartilage segmentation is a clinically relevant segmentation problem which has gained considerable importance in recent years. The goal of SKI10 is to compare different algorithms for cartilage and bone segmentation from knee MRI data.
EMPIRE10
Accurate registration of thoracic CT is both extremely useful in clinical terms and exceptionally challenging due to the elastic nature of lung tissue deformations. EMPIRE10 provides a platform for in-depth evaluation and fair comparison of available registration algorithms for this application.
DIADEM
The goals of this competition were to raise awareness of the problem of automated neuronal reconstruction, spur development of automated and semi-automated algorithms, and to gauge the state of the art in the field.
2009
ANODE09
ANODE09 is an initiative to compare systems that perform automatic detection of pulmonary nodules in chest CT scans on a single common database, with a single evaluation protocol.
ROC
ROC: Retinopathy Online Challenge
PROMISE09
2009 Prostate Segmentation Challenge
EXACT09
The goal of the EXACT study is to compare algorithms to extract the airway tree from thoracic computed tomography scans using a common dataset and performance evaluation method.
VOLCAN09
VOLCANO'09: Volume Change Analysis of Nodules
