7 October 2024
Diamant Room, Palmeraie Convention Centre - Marrakesh, Morocco
Dear Researchers,
We are delighted to announce the inauguration of the Open Data initiative and event at MICCAI 2024.
As the landscape of medical machine learning continues to evolve, access to diverse, representative, and inclusive datasets has become paramount for addressing global healthcare challenges effectively. The Open Data initiative aims to empower collaboration and innovation by facilitating and promoting sharing of medical imaging datasets.
In its dawn, while open to any participants, the Open Data initiative focuses particularly on underrepresented populations and diseases. Despite significant progress in medical imaging research and the availability of several public datasets, there remains a critical gap in the availability of diverse datasets, such as from the African continent. By highlighting datasets from these currently underrepresented populations, we strive to address disparities in healthcare and promote inclusivity in machine learning research.
Therefore, our Open Data initiative has established the AFRICAI repository, with the aim of hosting publicly available high-quality medical imaging datasets, focused on underrepresented populations and diseases. It is closely related to the principles of FAIR data and Data-centric AI, where data and its systematic engineering are at the forefront of model development. After all, there are no "good" models without "good" data.
MICCAI will be held on October 6-10, 2024, at the Marrakesh Palmeraie Convention Centre, Morocco, and the Open Data event will run in parallel to the main track on October 7, 13.30-18.00 at Diamant room opposite the main conference room. Hence if you are visiting MICCAI, you can visit the Open Data event: no separate registration is required.
The presented data and related works will be selected based on peer-reviewed paper submissions. The MELBA journal will serve as the official journal for submissions from the MICCAI Open Data track.
We look forward to seeing you at the 1st Open Data session at MICCAI 2024 - welcome!
The main focus is on:
Additional topics include:
We invite submissions of papers describing novel datasets - especially from the African continent and other underrepresented populations and diseases - including methodologies for the data collection and curation, and innovative approaches for utilizing them in medical imaging research.
The AFRICAI repository will be hosted at the Euro-BioImaging Medical Imaging Archive XNAT. Details on the data model and how to upload your data in the repository can be found here.
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