Registration

• Only one registration is allowed per team.
• Anonymous registration is not allowed. An email affiliated with a recognised academic or industrial institute is required at the time of registration. Information must be given in full (no abbreviation).
• By registering, all team members agree to and accept all competition rules listed on this page.

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Data Usage

• The dataset used in this competition is provided for research purposes only. Commercial uses are not allowed.
• If you intend to publish research work that uses this dataset, you must cite our review paper to be published after the competition (tentative submission by the end of Nov, 2015) AND the following paper, wherein the same dataset was first used:
  • K. Sirinukunwattana, D.R.J. Snead, N.M. Rajpoot, "A Stochastic Polygons Model for Glandular Structures in Colon Histology Images," in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2015 (in press)
    doi: 10.1109/TMI.2015.2433900

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Submission of the Short Paper

• Each team is allowed to submit up to 3 methods per challenge task.
• The submitted paper must be in the format specified in the submission guidelines.

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Submission of the Segmentation Results

• Each set of submitted results must correspond to a method described in your short paper.
• The submitted results must be in the format specified in the submission guidelines.

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Disclosure of the Competition Results

• By submitting your results, you allow the organisers to publish an evaluation of your algorithm.
  
• A review paper of the selected approaches will be published collaboratively by the organisers and the authors after the competition. Note that we only allow 3 members of each team to be credited as authors.

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Ownership of Algorithms

• The ownership of the submitted algorithms will remain with the authors.