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Over the last couple of decades, “challenges” have been successfully employed to spur scientific research, “leverage ingenuity” and foster the translation of scientific advances into more widespread use. The topics for the challenges have covered a large spectrum of critical issues from self-driving cars and robots for “dangerous, degraded, human-engineered environments” to topics in energy, education and human health.  

“Challenges” have also becoming increasingly important in the medical imaging research community. Such challenges have been an integral part of prestigious conferences such as MICCAI (Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention) and International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) and are being planned at a number of other venues. The underlying rationale for these challenges is driven by the realization that every year we see the publication of numerous algorithms published in the scientific literature, yet a very small fraction are translated into clinical use. Challenges can be an effective means to comprehensively assess the performance of algorithms by comparing them on common, sufficiently large and diverse datasets using realistic tasks and valid evaluation metrics.

MedICI is an open-source project that is developing infrastructure and support to  host medical imaging challenges across radiology, digital pathology, and genomics. We will describe the architecture of the system including the integration of CodaLab, caMicrosocope, and ePAD. We will walk through the process of hosting and participating in challenges from the perspective of the organizer and participant, describe past and on-going challenges and share successes as well as lessons learned.

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