Dear top 10 teams,

If your team has not yet replied to our earlier invitation notification, kindly do so and include the information we need to plan your presentation. A confirmation email to vws.challenge.2022@gmail.com would be highly appreciated, even if you decide not to attend SMRA and MICCAI, If we don't receive your response by Friday, 2022.8.12 at 12:00 am EST, by default, you are unable to participate in SMRA and MICCAI.

Congratulations! We are willing to invite the top 10 teams in the CarOtid vessel wall SegMentation and atherosclerOsis diagnosiS challenge (COSMOS 2022) to present your work at the SMRA 2022 (Aug 23-26, 2022, https://society4mra.org/index.php/smra-2022-annual-meeting/) and MICCAI 2022 (Sept 18-22, 2022, https://conferences.miccai.org/2022/en/) events. Please let us know your answers to the following by August 8th 2022 (Please send your email to vws.challenge.2022@gmail.com).

  1. Are you willing to present your work at SMRA 2022 (COSMOS 2022 session will be from 08:00am to 09:00am, PDT time, on Wednesday, Aug 24, 2022)? - Organizers will collect and play the presentation videos from participants. - Please participate in the session, there will be a Q&A session, you can choose to participate online (A ZOOM meeting link will be posted soon) or in person (Los Angeles, CA).

  2. Are you willing to present your work at MICCAI 2022 event (Sept 18, 2022)? - More information will be available soon.

If yes, please provide us with the following information so that we can organize your presentation:

To provide by August 8th 2022

1.Team Name:

2.Name of Presenter:

3.Affiliation/Institution:

To provide by August 18th 2022

A 4-minute recorded video with slides to present your work. Notably, there will be an introduction of the background ahead of all the talks, considering the limited time, PLEASE DO NOT include Research Background in your talk.

Please upload your video to Baidu Cloud or Google Drive and email us the download link.

We suggest preparing your talk and video with PowerPoint or Keynote, please see the following instructions:

PowerPoint:

• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/record-a-slide-show-with-narration-and-slide-timings-0b9502c6-5f6c-40ae-b1e7-e47d8741161c#of-ficeversion=2013,_2016

• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-your-presentation-into-a-video-c140551f-cb37-4818-b5d4-3e30815c3e83

Keynote:

• https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/keynote/tan8a5df9cc5/mac

• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202220

To provide by August 20th 2022

1.Team Member Names:

2.Written Report in the format below:

Suggested Report Format

2 (minimum) to 4 (maximum) pages, follow MICCAI formatting guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines)

Sections

Rationale for choice of algorithm Description of algorithm with figure/flowchart/network structure chart Training procedure (input, output, data separation, data augmentation, loss function, optimizer, learning rate, etc.) Performance on training/validation set Model interpretability/explainability/robustness evaluations Limitations/Possible improvements of algorithm in future Challenges in vessel wall segmentation compared to other machine/deep learning tasks To provide by September 1st 2022 (subject to change)

MICCAI presentation slides (10-minute recorded presentation explaining your method, training, and performance)

Each team will be allotted a total of 10 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions/discussion.

Detailed instructions on the export format and upload location will be made available as the September 1st deadline approaches.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions (vws.challenge.2022@gmail.com).

Thanks,

COSMOS 2022 Team