Infrastructure for Algorithm Comparisons, Benchmarks, and Challenges, in Medical Imaging

Author: Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer

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Introduction

Challenges are being increasingly viewed as a mechanism to foster advances in a number of domains including healthcare and medicine. The US Federal government, as part of the open government initiative has underscored the role of challenges https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/us_national_action_plan_6p.pdf as a way to "promote innovation through collaboration and (to) harness the ingenuity of the American Public." Large quantities of publicly available data and cultural changes in the openness of science have now made it possible to use these challenges and crowdsourcing efforts to propel the field forward.

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