Dear participants,

Thank you all for your contributions to the Qualification phase of the STOIC2021 challenge. The Qualification phase has now ended, and we are happy and grateful to see many well performing submissions with interesting and varying approaches.

It is now time to move to the Final phase of the challenge. We would like to have an idea of which teams are interested to join the Final phase. We therefore would like to ask the contact person of each team that outperformed the baseline on the "Qualification (last submission)" Leaderboard to send an e-mail to luuk.boulogne@radboudumc.nl. In this e-mail, please let us know if you are interested to join the Final phase of STOIC2021. The 10 best performing teams that are interested to join will be invited. Also, please let us know in your e-mail if you would be interested in co-authoring the peer reviewed article that will be written about the findings of the STOIC2021 challenge.

That's it for now. We will inform you about whether you are invited to the Final phase with a reply to your e-mail on April 22nd.

Happy Easter to all who celebrate it! Best, Luuk