Rules and guidelines¶

Participation¶

Participants can choose to participate in one or both tasks. Members of the organizers’ institution as well as employees of Siemens Healthineers and TracInnovations are not allowed to participate.

The Top 5 performing methods per task will be announced publicly. Participating teams can choose whether the performance results will be made public. 

Award¶

The first-placed team will receive a seat in the Siemens Neuro course which will be held on April 28-19th 2022.

Code Availability¶

We will encourage all participating teams to make their code available on Github, but we do not require it.

Conflicts of interest / Data protection¶

By entering, except where prohibited by law, each entrant grants NRU, Rigshospitalet, Denmark the right and permission to use, edit, modify, copy, reproduce, and distribute entrants’ submitted images and image descriptions (abstracts) in connection with the challenge. 

Data ownership (aka access to data) is protected by Danish data protection law and lies with the Capital region of Denmark. Only the people listed on the data collection agreement which consists of the people running this study will have access to the test data until after the MICCAI challenge has taken place. Afterwards the anonymized test data will be publicly released on the challenge website. 

Publication Policy¶

There will be an embargo time of 12 months after the challenge submission date for the challenge organizers to publish a challenge paper first. Up to 3 members of the 10 best teams will qualify as co-author on the challenge paper, given that they fulfil the Vancouver Group Recommendations individually, which are:

1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND

2. Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND

3. Final approval of the version to be published; AND

4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

Afterwards the participating teams may publish their own results separately.