Connectionists: Call for Participation: 7th edition of the Medical Image Captioning Task @ ImageCLEF 2023

[Alba García]

Call for Participation: 7th edition of the Medical Image Captioning Task @
ImageCLEF 2023

Website: ImageCLEFmedical Caption | ImageCLEF / LifeCLEF - Multimedia
Retrieval in CLEF <https://www.imageclef.org/2023/medical/caption>

Contact: imageclefcaption at googlegroups.com

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 ImageCLEFmedical Caption 2023 consists of two subtasks:

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   Concept Detection Task:

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.

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   Caption Prediction Task:

On the basis of the concept vocabulary detected in the first subtask as
well as the visual information of their interaction in the image,
participating systems are tasked with composing coherent captions for the
entirety of an image. In this step, rather than the mere coverage of visual
concepts, detecting the interplay of visible elements is crucial for strong
performance.
Preliminary Schedule

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   19 December 2022: Registration opens
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   6 February 2023: Release of the training and validation sets
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   14 March 2023: Release of the test sets
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   22 April 2023: Registration closes
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   10 May 2023: Run submission deadline
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   17 May 2023: Release of the processed results by the task organizers
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   5 June 2023: Submission of participant papers [CEUR-WS]
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   23 June 2023: Notification of acceptance
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   7 July 2023: Camera ready copy of participant papers and extended lab
   overviews [CEUR-WS]
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   18-21 September 2023: CLEF 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece
   <https://clef2023.clef-initiative.eu/>

Organizers:



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   Johannes Rückert, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund,
   Germany
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   Asma Ben Abacha <https://sites.google.com/site/asmabenabacha/>,
   Microsoft, USA
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   Alba García Seco de Herrera
   <https://www1.essex.ac.uk/csee/staff/profile.aspx?ID=5723>,University of
   Essex, UK
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   Christoph M. Friedrich <https://www.fh-dortmund.de/friedrich/>,
   University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Germany
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   Henning Müller
   <http://medgift.hevs.ch/silverstripe/index.php/team/henning-mueller/>,
   University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland
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   Louise Bloch, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Germany
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   Raphael Brüngel, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund,
   Germany
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   Ahmad Idrissi-Yaghir, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund,
   Germany
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   Henning Schäfer, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund,
   Germany
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