Final testing phase open!

Hi everyone,

The final testing phase of this challenge is now open! We wanted to reiterate a few things as we near the final submissions of this challenge:

1. There are going to be a total of 3 submissions available per team in the final testing phase. The best performing submission will be used for ranking. The Grand Challenge system does not allow us to limit submissions per team, so any submission made by a different team member of the same team after a total of 3 submissions will not be taken into account for ranking finalization.

2. Please read through updated submissions instructions carefully at https://surgtoolloc23.grand-challenge.org/submission-instructions/. The requirements for a complete submissions are again listed below:

   a) Successful run of your algorithm container on final testing phase

   b) Detailed methodology report with all the requirements (e.g GitHub repo link with documentation on how to run and reproduce algorithm container, private dataset used link etc) sent to isi.challenges@intusurg.com

   c) 3 mins (max) recorded talk detailing your methodology (sent with report)

3. Only submissions that perform better than last year’s top performing methods will be eligible for prizes. We will be running algorithms containers from last year’s top 3 teams and those submissions will be made public (on the leaderboard) with results announcement on challenge day. If any team has incomplete submission (missing report, missing GitHub repo, missing video, etc), the next best performing team will take on the position of that team

Best,

SurgToolLoc Organizing Committee

Dear organizer,

I have a question about the deadline for the final test. I know that date of deadline, September 15th, but I wonder what time is the deadline.

It would be helpful if you could tell us the time in UTC.

Thank you, Atsushi

Please check out the most recent announcement regarding deadline extension. The time for each deadline is kept as 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time USA.

Best, SurgToolLoc Organizing Committee

Thank you for clarification and extension of deadline.

I also have two questions.

1. Is there any plan to postpone the deadline of methodology report as well as final test phase?
2. Do you have templates for the methodology report (Microsoft Office Word) and video presentation (Microsoft Office Powerpoint)?

Best regard,

Atsushi

Hi there,

1. There is no plan to extend the deadline for the methodology report. Please plan to have this completed on the original timeline.
2. There is an example report linked on the submission instructions page: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AW8IM5hPLbqo1Jvw5YIIfoW4bsI_Toc0/edit?pli=1

Best, The SurgToolLoc Organizing Committee