EAD Challenge: Multi-class artefact detection in video endoscopy¶
EAD2019
- *Proceeding from EAD2019 challenge can be found at: *http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2366/
- Learn more about the workshop at Spotlight
*******We have closed online submission for now as we are
dissecting all valid submissions for a joint journal publication
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Important Dates: 📌 Test data release: *2nd March
2019 ~~ 📌 Leaderboard setup and submission start: ~~5th March
2019 📌 *Last date to apply for travel grants:~~ 15th March 2019
~~ 📌 Decision on travel grant awards: 16th March 2019📌 Leaderboard submission closing:
20th March 2019 ~~ ~~24th
March 2019 27th March 2019 (23:59 PT) 📌 Abstract submission
deadline: 31st March 2019 (*All participants can
submit) 📌 Decision for spotlight/oral presentation: 2nd April
2019📌 Decision of EAD2019 challenge winners: ** 8th April 2019
(https://ead2019.grand-challenge.org/Rules/) 📌 Decision
for joint journal submission:** 9th April 2019
Workshop program: EAD2019 Workshop program
Submit you abstract here: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/EAD2019
🇮🇹 Travel Grant Winners of EAD2019:¶
1. Maxime Kayser, TUM, Germany2. Refika Sultan Dogan, Abdullah Gul University, Turkey3. Azam Mohammad Khan, Korea University, South Korea 4. Shanka Subhra Mondal, IIT, Kharagpur, India
► !!!!Big news!!!! *MedIAN will be sponsoring 3 grants for travel and challenge registration** (includes up to £250 for travel and fully covered challenge registration) *► TO APPLY PLEASE FILL THIS FORM** (EAD2019-grantApplication)
📈 Challenge workshop news:
► IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
(ISBI'19) Challenge
workshop confirmed: 8th April, 2019 (morning session), in Venice,
Italy(please note that you can also only book for challenge, see IEEE
ISBI registration page)► Confirmed keynote speakers: *Adrien Bartoli and James East *► Know opinion regarding
importance of this challenge from our clinical
expert: *Adam Bailey
► Please find the preliminary schedule of this challenge workshop
here: EAD2019 Workshop program
🖇Tools:* Please visit
our GitHub repository
for tools that you might find useful.
Summary:¶
Endoscopic Artefact Detection (EAD*) is a core challenge in facilitating diagnosis and treatment of diseases in hollow organs. Precise detection of specific artefacts like pixel saturations, motion blur, specular reflections, bubbles and debris is essential for high-quality frame restoration and is crucial for realising reliable computer-assisted tools for improved patient care. The challenge is sub-divided into three tasks: *
- Multi-class artefact detection: Localization of bounding boxes and
class labels for
67 artefact classes for given frames. - Region segmentation: Precise boundary delineation of detected artefacts.
- Detection generalization: Detection performance independent of specific data type and source.
The Challenge (in detail)¶
Endoscopy is a widely used clinical procedure for the early detection of numerous cancers (e.g., nasopharyngeal, oesophageal adenocarcinoma, gastric, colorectal cancers, bladder cancer etc.), therapeutic procedures and minimally invasive surgery (e.g., laparoscopy). During this procedure an endoscope is used; a long, thin, rigid or flexible tube having a light source and a camera at the tip which allows to visualize inside of affected organs on a screen. A major drawback of these video frames is that they are heavily corrupted with multiple artefacts (e.g., pixel saturations, motion blur, defocus, specular reflections, bubbles, fluid, debris etc.). These artefacts not only present difficulty in visualizing the underlying tissue during diagnosis but also affect any post-analysis methods required for follow-ups (e.g., video mosaicking done for follow-ups and archival purposes, and video-frame retrieval needed for reporting). Accurate detection of artefacts is a core challenge in a wide-range of endoscopic applications addressing multiple different disease areas. The importance of precise detection of these artefacts is essential for high-quality endoscopic frame restoration and crucial for realising reliable computer assisted endoscopy tools for improved patient care.
This challenge proposal aims to address the following key problems inherent in all video endoscopy:
**1) Multi-class artefact detection: **
Existing endoscopy workflows detect only one artefact class which is insufficient to obtain high-quality frame restoration. In general, the same video frame can be corrupted with multiple artefacts, e.g. motion blur, specular reflections, and low contrast can be present in the same frame. Further, not all artefact types contaminate the frame equally. So, unless multiple artefacts present in the frame are known with their precise spatial location, clinically relevant frame restoration quality cannot be guaranteed. Another advantage of such detection is that frame quality assessments can be guided to minimise the number of frames that gets discarded during automated video analysis.
**2) Multi-class artefact region segmentation: **
Frame artefacts typically have irregular shapes that are non-rectangular and consequently are overestimated by the detected bounding boxes. Development of accurate semantic segmentation methods to precisely delineate the boundaries of each detected frame artefact will enable optimized restoration of video frames without sacrificing information.
**3) Multi-class artefact generalisation: **
It is important for algorithms to avoid biases induced by specific training data sets. Also, it is well known that expert annotation generation is time consuming and can be infeasible for many data institutions. In this challenge, we encourage the participants to develop machine learning algorithms that can be used across different endoscopic datasets worldwide based on our large combined dataset from 6 different institutions.
This challenge is of immediate interest to the endoscopic community comprising:
Image analysts – precise artefact detection for video restoration can assist in downstream analysis such as mosaicking, image retrieval, automated diagnosis.
Clinical endoscopists – artefact detection algorithm can help to train endoscopists to develop better imaging protocols.
Manufacturers/Industry - even though hardware specifications of endoscopes have improved allowing hi-definition acquisition, frame artefacts are inevitably still present. Precise identification of artefacts can lead to affective frame corrections. Thus, this challenge offers new opportunities for industries to correct for the frame quality issues in endoscopic video acquisition present widely due to motion (blur), view-point changes (pixel saturations or low contrast or specular reflection), and floating objects (debris, occlusion).
In addition, this challenge aims to target larger audience that includes people working on data obtained from different optical-based instruments (not limited to endoscopy) where different types of artefacts and noise are a serious issue. Also, detection methods have been widely used to solve various computer vision problems, so this challenge will offer a new insight towards video quality improvements.
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