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 model and submit a 4-page technical paper describing their methods and results will be invited to co-author a journal paper about the challenge.
