Email organizers: OMIA@hdmilab.cn

	Welcome to the Pathologic Myopia Challenge! PALM is organized as a half day Challenge, a Satellite Event of the ISBI 2019 conference in Venice, Italy.

The PALM challenge focuses on the investigation and development of algorithms associated with the diagnosis of Pathological Myopia (PM) and segmentation of lesions in fundus photos from PM patients. The goal of the challenge is to evaluate and compare automated algorithms for the detection of pathological myopia on a common dataset of retinal fundus images. We invite the medical image analysis community to participate by developing and testing existing and novel automated fundus classification and segmentation methods.

Please don't mind if your participation request is not approved on this platform, we will batch process the request before data releasing.

Related RULES are copied as below for your reference.

• Anonymous registration is NOT allowed. All information entered when registering a team, including the (TRUE) Name of the contact person, the Affiliation (including department, full name of university/institute/company, country) and the E-mail address must be COMPLETE and CORRECT. The abbreviation is not allowed.
• Incomplete registrations will be removed without notice.
• Redundant registrations will be removed without notice.

How to Participate?¶

If you want to participate in the challenge, you can register at the website, download the training and test data, submit the results, provided you agree with the rules of the challenge.

Please contact the organizers if you have any questions. 

Update¶

Feb 01 2020   Submission and Evaluation reopens. The online leaderboard will be updated once every week.

Key Notes for your Participation @ Venice¶

1. Any team meets all the following requirement before the deadline (Mar 10), is accepted to attend the onsite challenge @ Venice on April 8:
   a) register your team via the CMT paper submission system (https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PALM2019/), a team may have only one member (if you have registered via email, you still need to submit our technical report through the CMT system with team information);
   b) obtain a non-zero score on the leaderboards (opened on Feb 28); c) submit a self-contained and reasonable technical report via the CMT system (opened on Feb 21);
   d) send a confirmation email of attendance to the organizers confirm your attendance of onsite participation in the CMT system together with the (pre-)camera ready submission or even from the beginning of your team registration;
   e) VISA and INVITATION LETTER: please pay the registration fee to ISBI for the challenge day of Apr 8, and then send an invitation letter request to ISBI registration service agent if you need one for VISA application.

2. The final score = 0.3 * off_site_socre + 0.7*onsite_score;

3. Sorry for the delays during sharing the data, please do understand that we are trying our best to guarantee the data quality.

4. The final on-site stage evaluation entrance together with the test images will be distributed through the CMT system.

5. A total of ~4000 USD awards will be provided by Baidu for the onsite PALM challenge.

Please do log in the CMT system to register your team before the deadline on Mar 15, to make your results effective. Thank you for the support and wish you good luck.

Important Dates （PST time）¶