Biomedical Challenge Survey¶

Announcement and invitation

Together with your submission, we kindly ask you to submit a questionnaire that is prepared by a new initiative with respect to biomedical challenges. The link to the survey will be sent in a separate email. This initiative involves many research institutions and is led by the MICCAI special interest group on biomedical image analysis challenges (contact person: Lena Maier-Hein, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)). We were asked for our support, and we have decided to provide it.

What is the initiative about?

In the past few years, the initiative has been working on bringing biomedical image analysis to the next level of quality [1, 2, 3]. While the focus was on the meta research question “Is the winner really the best?”, the goal now is to go one step further and analyze challenge participation characteristics (e.g. expertise of team, algorithm design, computational infrastructure used). To this end, it is planned to perform a meta-analysis of the challenges conducted in 2021 (ISBI and MICCAI).

As in the previous Nature Communications paper [1], the results will be presented in an anonymized and aggregated fashion, such that findings are not linked to specific challenges.

For extra motivation, the initiative is pleased to offer you a co-authorship on the publication of the statistical analysis that is planned to be published on arXiv. Careful completion of the survey will be a prerequisite for co-authorship. Additionally, you can choose to be considered for prizes that will be raffled among the pool of ISBI and MICCAI 2021 challenge participants that submit the questionnaire.

References:

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07619-7
[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361841520301602
[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82017-6