Each participant can only be a member of a single team (1 person can
be considered a team)
Multiple Grand challenge profiles or a member apart of multiple teams
will be disqualified.
To qualify for ranking on the validation/testing leaderboards, true
names and affiliations [university, institute or company (if any),
country] must be displayed accurately on verified Grand Challenge
profiles, for all participants.
Participants of the AortaSeg24 challenge, as well as all
non-participating researchers using the training data or test data for
benchmarking purposes, CAN NOT publish their own results at any time,
during or after the challenge.
No additional training dataset is allowed. This ensures fairness and
consistency across submissions from all participating teams.
Participants affiliated with the organizing institution, 'University
of Florida', are not eligible to participate in this challenge.
All teams are required to sign a data usage agreement (DUA) before
downloading data under the IRB protocol.
After the challenge, participating teams can continue to use the data
for non-commercial research purposes but must cite the challenge
conclusion paper if they incorporate this dataset into their own
publications.
The organizers of the challenge reserve the right to disqualify any
participant or participating team, at any point in time, on grounds of
unfair or dishonest practices.
All participants have the right to exit the AortaSeg24 challenge at
any time.
A validation dataset will be available in May, enabling participating
teams to develop and validate their models.
The performance results of all teams will be made publicly
available.
To be considered for a participation certificate you must successfully
submit your docker containers to the challenge website as well as
submit a 4-page technical paper.
Participating teams will be required to submit their 4-page technical
paper along with a URL link to the GitHub repository containing the
code for their implementations, in order to be considered as a
co-author of the challenge paper.
Teams that achieve a test score higher than the baseline score and
submit a 4-page technical paper describing their methods and results
will be invited to co-author a journal paper about the challenge.
