Connectionists: Call For Participation: 3rd Edition of ImageCLEF Caption Challenge (@ CLEF 2019)

[Alba García]

*The 3rdEdition of the ImageCLEF Caption Challenge 2019*

https://www.imageclef.org/2019/medical/caption

*Motivation*

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.

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.

*Data*

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.


*Challenge description*

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.

*Preliminary Schedule*

   - *19.11.2018*: Registration opens for all ImageCLEF tasks (until
   *26.04.2019*)
   - *15.01.2019*: training release starts
   - *18.03.2019*: Test data release starts
   - *01.05.2019*: Deadline for submitting the participants runs
   - *13.05.2019*: Release of the processed results by the task organizers
   - *24.05.2019*: Deadline for submission of working notes papers by the
   participants
   - *07.06.2019*: Notification of acceptance of the working notes papers
   - *28.06.2019*: Camera-ready working notes papers
   - *09-12.09.2019*: CLEF 2019 <http://clef2019.clef-initiative.eu/>,
   Lugano, Switzerland



*Participant Registration*

Please refer to the general ImageCLEF registration instructions
<https://www.imageclef.org/2019#registration>



*Organizing Committee*

   - Obioma Pelka <obioma.pelka(at)fh-dortmund.de>, University of Applied
   Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Germany
   - Christoph M. Friedrich <christoph.friedrich(at)fh-dortmund.de>,
   University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Germany
   - Alba García Seco de Herrera <alba.garcia(at)essex.ac.uk>,University of
   Essex, UK
   - Henning Müller <henning.mueller(at)hevs.ch>, University of Applied
   Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland



For more details and updates, please visit the task website at:
https://www.imageclef.org/2019/medical/caption and join our mailing list:
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/imageclefcaption





Dr Alba García Seco de Herrera PhD

Lecturer

Department of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

University of Essex



T +44 (0) 1206 872907

E alba.garcia at essex.ac.uk

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