Dear participants,

Thank you for your recognition and participation of our challenge.

The Deadline (DDL: 17 Aug 2022) of the validation phase is approaching! We have increased the times for the validation submission to ten times! You can submit 10 times of the validation before the 17, Aug, 2022. The validation submission should contains:

Step 1. Submit the compressed binary segmentation result in a zip format and name it with your teamname (e.g., teamnameVal1.zip) on the validation phase.

Step 2. Submit the short paper in the supplementary file of validation phase or Email a short paper to IMR-ATM22@outlook.com.

ATTENTION: 1) The saved prediction results should have the same origin and spacing as those of corresponding input NIFTI CT images. 2) Only the largest component of the binary results are considered, please guarantee your results are processed with the largest component extraction.

The detailed submission guideline, please refer to Submission Guideline and Validation Submission Phase.

We provide the electronic certificates for all team members who successfully participate in this challenge and provide the cash for the winners. The Winner: $ 500. The Runner-up: $ 200. The three authors of the top five performing methods will be invited to qualified as authors in the final challenge paper.

We hope to see you in the MICCAI 2022 Challenge SATELLITE EVENTS, on 18th, Sep, 2022, Singapore. MICCAI-2022 Challenge: https://conferences.miccai.org/2022/en/MICCAI2022-CHALLENGES.html MICCAI-2022 Homepage: https://conferences.miccai.org/2022/en/default.asp

Best Regards, On the behalf of Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University