Computer Vision News - April 2021

26 Challenge cases. We have brought this challenge to life at MICCAI to create a platform for all researchers working in the segmentation field to propose new approaches and techniques to help us solve these problems.” Th ere aren’t many centers currently using these kinds of imaging techniques nor with access to a high volume of cases, so any algorithms must be able to handle a relatively low number of datasets. The hope is the challenge will bring new data to the community and solutions and approaches which can ultimately be transferred to the clinical routine . “W e want this challenge to encourage research groups from different fields beyond just developmental imaging to pull together their expertise in segmentation to create these algorithms,” Kelly says hopefully. “The n other groups and clinicians can use the algorithms to analyze their own data in their own clinics. It’s a problem that needs to be solved in many different hospitals and this is a great opportunity to come up with solutions.” Once the challenge has completed, the organizers are planning a joint publication in a journal paper, so as well as being able to compare results with fellow competitors, participants will be able to propose their resultsto the whole community. This will lead to much greater visibility. As a new challenge on the block, how easy was it for FeTA to be selected for inclusion in the MICCAI programme? “Ou r reviewers were generally really positive,” Kelly responds happily. “In the fetal imaging community, there is a lack of open-source data available. It’s time consuming to create it and you need highly specialized people to segment fetal brains. There are also ethical issues around releasing it. It’s incredibly challenging. This really is a unique dataset that we’re offering to the MICCAI community. Everybody has been very supportive.” Good luck to everybody taking part in the FeTA Challenge this year. We very much hope to find out the results, if all goes well, in person in Strasbourg in September!