ESENSEI Challenge

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ESENSEI Challenge: Marking Hair Follicles on Microscopic Images

ESENSEI Challenge is a data mining competition, whereby the task is to design an algorithm for accurate marking of follicle positions on microscopic images.

Overview

In analyses of hair and scalp disorders based on microscopic images, one of the basic parameters are coordinates of the follicular openings – the places, where hair appears on the skin. The purpose of this challenge is to find the most effective and robust algorithm to generate the complete "map" of follicular openings on the image. The potential applications of this “map”, apart from hair disorder diagnosis, include biometry as it has similar properties to fingerprints – is unique for the individual and the location on the scalp.

More details regarding the task and a description of the competition data can be found in Task description section.

Terms & Conditions

The competition is open to all interested researchers, specialists, and students. Only members of the Contest Organizing Committee and employees of eSensei cannot participate.

Participants may submit solutions as teams made up of one or more persons.
Each team needs to designate a leader responsible for communication with the Organizers. A single person can be a leader of only one team.
One person may be incorporated into maximally 3 teams.
Each team needs to be composed of a different set of persons.
Each team is obliged to provide a short report describing their final solution. The report must contain information such as the name of the team, names of all team members and a brief overview of the used approach. The description should explain all data preprocessing steps and model construction steps. It should be submitted in the pdf format using our submission system by June 10, 2018 (23:59 GMT). Only submissions made by teams that provided the reports will qualify for the final evaluation.
Organizers hold the right to extend the deadlines for submitting solutions and/or reports. In such a case, they will inform participants about the change using the competition forum.
Organizers are not responsible for any consequences of technical issues related to the evaluation system or the competition platform.
The final ranking of the competing teams will be done on the basis of the final evaluation results. In a case of draws in the evaluation scores, time of the submission will be taken into account.
After the final evaluation, selected top-ranked teams may be asked to provide the source codes that can be used to reproduce their final solutions and a documentation that would allow running the code. If the code has to be run within a complex environment (e.g. distributed Hadoop cluster) a detailed setup explanation should be provided as well. The source codes will be used to verify a legitimacy of solutions. Only verified solutions will be eligible for the awards in the challenge.
Data sets from this competition are a property of data provider. Their usage for the purpose of any post-competition research requires explicit acknowledgment from eSensei. Each report, paper and any other type of publication about the competition results or research performed during the competition should accredit both eSensei and Knowledge Pit as the institution that provided data for the research.
Organizers may reject any submission if they suspect that it was produced in an unfairly way or was submitted by a team which has broken the competition rules without providing any additional explanation.
By enrolling in this competition you grant the organizers rights to process your submissions and reports for the purpose of evaluation and post-competition research. Your personal data is administrated by Polish Information Processing Society (http://www.pti.org.pl/).

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Final results

Rank	Team Name	Is Report		Preliminary Score	Final Score	Submissions
1	rs	True	True	0.7564	0.762995	2
2	jj	True	True	0.7355	0.749348	2
3	podludek	True	True	0.7024	0.713888	2
4	dymitrruta	True	True	0.6934	0.701830	2
5	amy	True	True	0.6684	0.682655	2
6	a.ruta	True	True	0.6313	0.650914	2
7	tvd3	True	True	0.5961	0.634695	2
8	dielappen	True	True	0.5077	0.529809	2
9	ogencoglu	True	True	0.5991	0.527246	2
10	sylwek444	True	True	0.1431	0.141047	2
11	baseline_solution	False	True	0.6797	No report file found or report rejected.	2
12	v-tec	False	True	0.5807	No report file found or report rejected.	2
13	optymista	False	True	0.5768	No report file found or report rejected.	2
14	michalm	False	True	0.5709	No report file found or report rejected.	2
15	hieuvq	False	True	0.5647	No report file found or report rejected.	2
16	iwannabetheverybest	False	True	0.2618	No report file found or report rejected.	2

Summary of the challenge

ESENSEI Challenge: Marking Hair Follicles on Microscopic Images has ended and the final results were published.

We would like to thank all participants for their work.

Awards:
1. Szymon Roziewski, Łukasz Podlodowski, Marek Nurzyński - team rs (National Information Processing Institute, Poland)
2. Jan Jakubik - team jj (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
3. Łukasz Podlodowski - team podludek (National Information Processing Institute, Poland)

Congratulations!

Schedule

April 27, 2018: start of the competition, training data become available,
June 9, 2018 (23:59 GMT): deadline for submitting the predictions,
June 10, 2018 (23:59 GMT): deadline for sending the reports, end of the competition,
June 15, 2018: online publication of the final results.

Awards

Authors of the top-ranked solutions (based on the final evaluation scores) will be awarded prizes funded by our sponsor:

First Prize: 1000 USD
Second Prize: 500 USD

Contest organizing committee

Andrzej Janusz, University of Warsaw & eSensei
Dominik Ślęzak, University of Warsaw & eSensei
Łukasz Grad, University of Warsaw & eSensei
Marcin Iwanowski, Warsaw University of Technology
Halina Kwaśnicka, Wrocław University of Technology

In case of any questions please post on the competition forum or write an email at janusza {at} mimuw.edu.pl.

Forum

Discussion	Author	Replies	Last post
Where is the data File folder?		1	by Andrzej Saturday, October 19, 2019, 10:58:31
Any limit on number of submissions?	Oguzhan	1	by Oguzhan Thursday, May 17, 2018, 10:46:18
Corrupted file	Łukasz	1	by Łukasz Wednesday, May 09, 2018, 11:01:58
Welcome to the TrichoLAB Challenge	Andrzej	0	by Andrzej Monday, May 07, 2018, 11:11:38