Following the new CLEF schedule, we extended the deadlines of the *VQA-Med challenge (for both VQA and VQG tasks)*:
- *5 June 2020: Deadline for submitting runs by the participants*
- 15 June 2020: Release of the processed results by the task organizers
- *15 July 2020: Deadline for submitting the working notes papers by the
participants*
- 14 August 2020: Notification of acceptance of the working notes papers
- 28 August 2020: Camera-ready copy of the working notes by participants
and organizers
- 22-25 September 2020: The CLEF conference will be online
*Updates about the data and the submission: *
1. We have released the training, validation, and test sets of the Visual
Question Answering
<https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/imageclef-2020-vqa-med-vqa> and Visual
Question Generation
<https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/imageclef-2020-vqa-med-vqg> tasks
2. Participant Registration: https://www.imageclef.org/2020
3. *The VQA
<https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/imageclef-2020-vqa-med-vqa> & VQG
<https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/imageclef-2020-vqa-med-vqg> submission
systems are open *
*For more information about VQA-Med 2020: *
- *Website: *https://www.imageclef.org/2020/medical/vqa
- Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/imageclef-vqa-med
*==================== Call For Participation====================* VQA-Med 2020 is a challenge on visual question answering and generation in the medical domain, organized in the scope of the ImageCLEF <https://www.imageclef.org/2020> evaluation campaign, CLEF 2020 <https://clef2020.clef-initiative.eu/>.
*Tasks: *
Participants will be tasked with answering medical questions based on the visual content of radiology images (*VQA*). This third edition of VQA-Med includes a new task on visual question generation (*VQG*). In VQA-Med 2019, participating systems performed well in answering modality questions, followed by plane and organ questions. In VQA-Med 2020, we will focus on the more challenging questions about abnormality*. *
*Participant Registration: *
Please refer to the general ImageCLEF 2020 registration instructions: https://www.imageclef.org/2020
*Organizers: *
- Asma Ben Abacha <https://sites.google.com/site/asmabenabacha/>
<asma.benabacha(at)nih.gov>, National Library of Medicine, USA
- Vivek Datla
<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y-BH9OEAAAAJ&hl=en>
<vivek.datla(at)philips.com>, Philips Research Cambridge, USA
- Sadid A. Hasan <http://sadidhasan.com/> <sadidhasan(at)gmail.com>, CVS
Health, USA
- Dina Demner-Fushman
<https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/personnel/dina-demner-fushman> <ddemner(at)
mail.nih.gov>, National Library of Medicine, USA
- Henning Müller
<http://medgift.hevs.ch/silverstripe/index.php/team/henning-mueller/>
<henning.mueller(at)hevs.ch>, University of Applied Sciences Western
Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland
Best regards, Asma
*============================ *
*Dr. Asma Ben Abacha*
*Staff Scientist, **National Institutes of Health (NIH)*
*U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)*
*Website <https://sites.google.com/site/asmabenabacha/> I LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/asmabenabacha/> I Twitter <https://twitter.com/asmabenabacha>*
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