Submissions: Uploading and Scoring is open
It will close Wednesday November 25th, 2009
Brain 2 Scan 2 will not be released
2009 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
International Conference on Data Mining
PBC Brain Connectivity Challenge
Brief summary: The competition involves applying data mining to map the “cables of the human brain” mapping ~300,000 fiber streamlines into 20-50 cables or tracts. It involves two challenges:
- Supervised learning to match the categorization of an expert, and
- Unsupervised learning of within and between subject segmentation.
A short YouTube presentation details the competition including illustrations of the fiber tracts. Details are available at the Challenge Overview page.
All entrants will be able to compare their scores relative to all the other completed entrants.
Awards will be announced at the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining December 6-9 in Miami, Florida. They will include:
- Supervised Learning Match Expert Award (Prize: $2000),
- Unsupervised Learning Within and Between Subject Award (Prize: $2000), and
- possibly a Contest Crown Award (if a group scores top in both award categories). It includes $1000 and the option to have the team leader have their brain scanned to create a fiber map of their brain.
This competition is sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh
Major fiber tracts that are the target for the competition
