Computer Vision News - April 2021

24 Challenge Roxane Licandro works at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and at the Medical University of Vienna (MedUni Wien) as a Project Assistant and University Assistant. Kelly Payette is a PhD student at the University of Zurich and is currently working in the Center for MR Research at the University Children’s Hospital in Zurich. Roxane and Kelly are co-organizers of the Fetal Brain Tissue Annotation and Segmentation (FeTA) Challenge, which takes place this year during the 6th annual Perinatal, Preterm and Paediatric Image Analysis (PIPPI) Workshop at MICCAI 2021. They speak to us about the competition and why it is so vital that we understand more about fetal brain development. Fetal MRI has begun to emerge as a powerful tool for investigating the development of fetuses with congenital disorders, which are one of the leading causes of infant mortality worldwide. Typically, when a pregnant mother has an ultrasound, she is referred on to an MRI if a potential issue is found. In the majority of these cases, a brain disorder is the concern. The FeTA Challenge is about finding automatic solutions for the segmentation of fetal brain tissue into different individual tissues, including white matter, gray matter, cerebellum, and brainstem . This will improve the diagnostic process over more time-consuming manual methods and help us to understand more about fetal brain growth in both normally developing cases and those with congenital disorders . “The brain is a very important organ to observe,” Roxane tells us. Fetal Brain Ti ssue Annotat ion and Segmentat ion Chal lenge Roxane Licandro Kelly Payette credit Barbara Wirl