The ImageCLEFmed-MEDVQA-GI (3rd edition) challenge 🔬 focuses on integrating Visual Question Answering (VQA) with synthetic gastrointestinal (GI) data 🏥 to enhance diagnostic accuracy 🏃♂️💡 and AI learning algorithms 🤖.
This year's challenge includes two exciting subtasks 🚀 designed to push the boundaries of image analysis 🖼️ and synthetic medical image generation 🧬, aiming to improve diagnostic processes 🏨 and patient outcomes 💖.
💡 Goal: Develop algorithms 🤖 that can accurately interpret and answer 🗣️ questions based on GI images 🏥. These questions may involve identifying abnormalities
✨ Focus: Create robust systems that combine image 🖼️ and text understanding 🗨️ to assist medical diagnostics 🏨.
- 🔢 How many polyps are in the image?
- ⚡ Are there any abnormalities in the image?
- 🏷️ What disease is visible in the image?
🖌️ Goal: Generate synthetic GI images 🧬 that are indistinguishable from real medical images 🏥, rich in detail and variability.
🌱 Why? Provide privacy-preserving alternatives 🔒 to real patient data and support diagnostic systems 💡.
The 2025 dataset 🗃️ is an extended version of the HyperKvasir dataset 🔗 (datasets.simula.no/hyper-kvasir) and includes:
- 🏥 GI images with detailed VQA annotations 📝
- 🌟 New synthetic image data simulating realistic diagnostic scenarios
- 🎯 Segmentation masks for key elements like polyps 🩺 and instruments 🛠️
- 🏃 Development Dataset: Download Here
- 🕑 Test Dataset: Coming Soon ⏳
- 📊 Metrics: 🎯 Accuracy, 🔍 Precision, ♻️ Recall, and 🏆 F1 Score.
- 📜 Evaluation: Based on correctness ✅ and relevance 📝 of answers using the provided questions 💬 and images 🖼️.
- 👀 Subjective Evaluation: 🩺 Expert reviewers will assess realism 🌟 and diagnostic utility 🏥.
- 🎯 Objective Evaluation:
- 📉 Fréchet Inception Distance (FID): Similarity between synthetic and real images.
- 🏗️ Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM): Resemblance in structure 🏛️.
🚀 Compete in real-time with a dynamic leaderboard 📈 showing participants' performance!
💡 Iterate, Improve & Win! 🏅
- 📅 20 December 2024: 📝 Registration opens
- 📅 14 February 2025: 🏃 Release of training & validation datasets
- 📅 14 March 2025: ⏳ Test datasets released
- 📅 25 April 2025: 🚪 Registration closes
- 📅 10 May 2025: ⏲️ Run submission deadline
- 📅 17 May 2025: 🏆 Processed results released
- 📅 30 May 2025: ✍️ Participant papers submission [CEUR-WS]
- 📅 27 June 2025: 💌 Notification of acceptance
- 📅 7 July 2025: 🖨️ Camera-ready paper submission [CEUR-WS]
- 🏛️ 9-12 September 2025: 🌍 CLEF 2025, Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸
✨ For any queries, feel free to reach out to our amazing team:
- 👨🔬 Steven A. Hicks 📧 steven@simula.no
- 🧑💻 Michael A. Riegler 📧 michael@simula.no
- 🧑🔬 Vajira Thambawita 📧 vajira@simula.no
- 👨🏫 Pål Halvorsen 📧 paalh@simula.no
- 🧑🎓 Sushant Gautam 📧 sushant@simula.no
🌐 Visit: 👉 imageclef.org/2025
💥 Join the challenge, push the boundaries, and make a difference in medical AI! 🚀🧬