Revision of ImageCLEF 2009 lung nodule detection and medical annotation task from Mon, 03/16/2009 - 15:01

In 2009, ImageCLEF will offer two medically oriented tasks that require visual techniques.

Lung nodule detection task

Introduction

This year will be the inaugural year for the lung nodule detection task.
The goal of this task is to compare the performance of lung nodule detection techniques with a gold standard of manually identified nodules. Runs submitted can be: fully automatic, methods with minimal user interaction and interactive segmentation methods. However, participants requested to provide information about the nature of their runs.

Data

The data for this task will be a subset of the LIDC (http://imaging.cancer.gov/programsandresources/InformationSystems/LIDC) database, a set of images that have been manually annotated for nodules by multiple radiologists. We will provide training, development and test data consisting of CT scans and associated annotation indicating the presence of nodules.

Tentative Schedule

15.1.2009: registration opens for all CLEF task
15.3.2009: training data and task release
15.5.2009: test data release
01.6.2009: submission of runs
15.7.2009: release of results
15.8.2009: submission of working notes papers
30.9-2.10.2009: CLEF workshop in Corfu, Greece.

Organizers

Barbara Caputo, Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland, bcaputo@idiap.ch
Tatiana Tommasi, Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland, ttommasi@idiap.ch
Henning Mueller, University and University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland, henning.mueller@sim.hcuge.ch
Thomas M. Deserno, RWTH Aachen University, Medical Informatics, IRMA group, deserno@ieee.org
Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA, kalpathy@ohsu.edu