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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:12.65pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;color:black">The
3rdEdition of the ImageCLEF Caption Challenge 2019</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.imageclef.org/2019/medical/caption" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">https://www.imageclef.org/2019/medical/caption</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;color:black">Motivation</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:12.65pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Interpreting and summarizing the insights gained from medical
images such as radiology output is a time consuming task that involves highly
trained experts and often represents a bottleneck in clinical diagnosis
pipelines.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:12.65pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Consequently, there is a considerable need for automatic methods
that can approximate this mapping from visual information to condensed textual
descriptions. The more image characteristics are known, the more structured are
the radiology scans and hence, the more efficient are the radiologists
regarding interpretation. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;color:black">Data</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:12.65pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We work on the basis of a large-scale collection of figures from
open access biomedical journal articles (PubMed Central). All images in the
training data are accompanied by UMLS concepts extracted from the original
image caption. </span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;color:black">Challenge description</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:12.65pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The first step to automatic image captioning and scene
understanding is identifying the presence and location of relevant concepts in
a large corpus of medical images. Based on the visual image content, this
subtask provides the building blocks for the scene understanding step by
identifying the individual components from which captions are composed. The
concepts can be further applied for context-based image and information
retrieval purposes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;color:black">Preliminary Schedule</span></b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>19.11.2018</strong><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: Registration opens for all
ImageCLEF tasks (until <strong>26.04.2019</strong>)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>15.01.2019</strong><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: training release starts</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>18.03.2019</strong><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: Test data release starts</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>01.05.2019</strong><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: Deadline for submitting the
participants runs</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>13.05.2019</strong><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: Release of the processed
results by the task organizers</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>24.05.2019</strong><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: Deadline for submission of
working notes papers by the participants</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>07.06.2019</strong><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: Notification of acceptance of
the working notes papers</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>28.06.2019</strong><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: Camera-ready working notes
papers</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>09-12.09.2019</strong><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: </span><a href="http://clef2019.clef-initiative.eu/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(149,79,114)">CLEF 2019</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, Lugano, Switzerland</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;color:black">Participant Registration</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:12.65pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Please refer to the general </span><a href="https://www.imageclef.org/2019#registration" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(149,79,114)">ImageCLEF
registration instructions</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a name="m_4321509504270551620__GoBack"></a><b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;color:black">Organizing Committee</span></b></p>
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<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;line-height:12.65pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Obioma
Pelka <obioma.pelka(at)<a href="http://fh-dortmund.de">fh-dortmund.de</a>>, University of Applied
Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Germany</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;line-height:12.65pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Christoph
M. Friedrich <christoph.friedrich(at)<a href="http://fh-dortmund.de">fh-dortmund.de</a>>, University of
Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Germany</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;line-height:12.65pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Alba
García Seco de Herrera <alba.garcia(at)<a href="http://essex.ac.uk">essex.ac.uk</a>>,University of
Essex, UK</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;line-height:12.65pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Henning
Müller <henning.mueller(at)<a href="http://hevs.ch">hevs.ch</a>>, University of Applied Sciences
Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland</span></li>
</ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">For more details and updates, please visit the task website at: </span><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193);font-size:11.5pt"><a href="https://www.imageclef.org/2019/medical/caption" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://www.imageclef.org/2019/medical/caption</a></span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space" style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black"> and
join our mailing list: </span></span><a href="https://groups.google.com/d/forum/imageclefcaption" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">https://groups.google.com/d/forum/imageclefcaption</span></a></p>
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de Herrera</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">PhD</span></p>
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