2nd APTOS Big Data Competition: Prediction on DME Patients’ Response to Anti-VEGF Treatment

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Challenge Series 2021

APTOS Big Data Competition:
Prediction on DME Patients’ Response to Anti-VEGF Treatment

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Competition Overview

Competition Overview
Prizes
Schedule
Datasets
Rules, Terms & Conditions
Organizers

Competition Overview

Supported by the Department of Medical Services, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand, the 2nd APTOS Big Data Competition is hosted by the Asia Pacific Tele-Ophthalmology Society and co-hosted by Rajavithi Hospital and Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center. The Competition focuses on the prediction of anti-VEGF treatment outcomes on patients with diabetic macular edema (DME). In this synchronous competition, you’ll build a machine learning model to predict treatment response of patients with DME. You’ll work with thousands of images collected in hospital settings to help predict patients’ response to anti-VEGF treatments. If successful, you will help ophthalmologists customize treatment plans and ensure timely and effective treatments for patients.

Open to AI Developers Around the World

Use AI Algorithms to Solve Real-world Problems

Cash Prizes and Exclusive Chances for Winners

Prizes

Participants with the best scores on the leaderboard will receive the following prizes.

First Place

$8000 USD in Cash Prize

Second Place

$5000 USD in Cash Prize

Third Place

$2000 USD in Cash Prize

Winners in this competition will be invited to contribute to the joint APTOS-ZOC AI Seminar, a sequel of the 6th Asia Pacific Tele-Ophthalmology Society Symposium, on December 4, 2021. All winners must present in the Presentation session on December 4 in order to become eligible for the cash prizes.

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Schedule

Sep 1, 2021

Preliminary round begins
Nov 19, 2021

Preliminary round ends
Nov 23, 2021

Final round begins
Dec 24, 2021

Final round ends
Mid-January 2022

Final presentation

Datasets

In this synchronous competition, you’ll build a machine learning model to predict treatment response of patients with diabetic macular edema (DME). In order to do so, the competition provides thousands of patients' Optical coherence tomography (OCT) images collected in hospital settings to help predict patients’ response to anti-VEGF treatments 6 months after the loading treatment.

Rules, Terms and Conditions

The 2nd APTOS Big Data Competition is open to all, regardless of your age, profession and nationality. APTOS Council Members and members of the Alibaba Group can participate in the Competition, but they will be excluded from the Awards.

For compliance with local regulations during the Competition, all contestants should abide by the export control related laws that are in effect in their country/region. In the event of violation of any export control related laws that cause adverse effects on the Competition, the Organizing Committee reserves the right to disqualify the contestant(s) in question and take legal action.

For contestants residing outside mainland China, please create an Alibaba Cloud account.

Contestants can download the training set from our official website and submit their algorithms up to 3 times a day. After each submission, the algorithm will be graded immediately and the leaderboard will be updated on an hourly basis to show the highest scores. The validation set will remain invisible to all contestants and unavailable for download.

Submissions should be made in form of Docker images. If you are new to Docker, click here to get started.

The competition organizers reserve the right to update the contest timeline if they deem it necessary.

The training data and testing data of this competition are provided by the Asia Pacific Tele-Ophthalmology Society, Rajavithi Hospital and Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center. Alibaba Cloud TIANCHI Platform only provides technical support of operation and maintenance for the evaluation process of this competition. Alibaba Cloud does not store any data related to the competition. the download channels of all data are provided by the Asia Pacific Society of Ophthalmology.