Getting Started¶

*** Welcome, CholecTriplet2021 challenge officially opens on 15 March, 2021 ***

How to Participate in the Ongoing CholecTriplet 2021 Challenge

INPUT STAGE

**1.     Participant Registration **

• Join the challenge via the join button and complete your details.
• Deadline: Aug 10, 2021.

2.     Request for Data Access

• To gain access to the CholecT50 dataset, download and complete the form describing the challenge rules. We advise that you read the rules thoroughly as we expect full compliance.
• Email the completed form to  nwoye@unistra.fr  and cholectriplet2021-info@icube.unistra.fr  with the subject: CholecTriplet2021 Registration.
• Deadline: Aug 10, 2021.
• When access is approved, visit data page to download the dataset.
• The data page is only available for the registered and approved participants.

3.     Team Registration

• Register your team before the challenge submission.
• Add your teammates to grant them the team's access and privileges.
• Don't forget to add yourself too! One-man team is allowed.
• Deadline: Aug 10, 2021.

PROCESS STAGE

4.    Getting started with the data

• A simple example data loading and visualization code in available for practice in the ** [colab code blog]**.
• The colab code blog is only available for the registered and approved participants.

5.     Developing your methods

• A sample shallow model implementing a full pipeline (data loading, model forward pass, output format) is available in the [colab code blog].

6.     Self-evaluating your methods

• We provide the evaluation metrics for this challenge. A sample usage code is available in the [colab code blog].
• Please be informed that your method will be evaluated in real-time. This means that when predicting the triplets at time t,  your model can have access to past frames t-1, t-2, t-3, . . . , but it can never see the future frames at t+1, t+2, t+3, ...

7.     Communication and reporting issues

• Slack channel [Join T50 community]. Here you can easily share your thoughts, ask community of organizers and participants, report issues and get feedback. (Launch date: 31/05/2021)
• Email announcement:
  • Participants :  cholectriplet2021-participants@icube.unistra.fr (please, no spamming others)
  • Contact Support : cholectriplet2021-support@icube.unistra.fr

OUTPUT STAGE

8.     Method submission

• Each team will submit a self-containing docker file of their model and weights.
• The docker should be designed to map to the input test data, run and produce outputs in the requested format.
• The submission guideline and model output format are well detailed with example code in the [colab code blog].
• Guide to building a submission docker is available in the [colab code blog].
• Validation of docker submission (August 10 - 31 , 2021).
• Final submission (Sept 1 - 15 , 2021).

9.     Challenge Results

• Challenge day results announcement (MICCAI 2021 EndoVIS Challenge day).
• Award categories/presentation.

10.     Report submission

• Prepare a slide/video presentation of your method  [download template] (TBA).
• Write a page draft report detailing the authors, overview of methods and experimental details  [download template] (TBA).
• All submission must be made on or before September 15, 2021 to be counted.
• Joint publication [TBA].

If you have any further questions, please check our FAQs page. If your question still remains unanswered,  please contact us.

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