Ranking

The Pearson’s correlation coefficient between the ground truth connectivity matrix and the submitted matrix (for the test dataset) will be used to rank submissions. Teams may submit any number of connectivity matrices but only the first 10 matrices will be used for the challenge ranking and leaderboard. For each team, the submission with the highest score will be used for ranking. Participants are welcome to submit more connectivity matrices, which will be used for further analysis.

Submission

Teams must submit a report describing the preprocessing of the diffusion signal, the local reconstruction, the tractography and the connectivity methods they have used. The document should be detailed enough to allow reproducibility of the processing steps leading to the submitted matrices. Please list the software used, add relevant references, and detailed the selected method parameters. Please detail the processing steps for the different matrices whenever they differ from a main strategy.

Please fill one report per team, following this template then rename it TeamName_Report.doc and email this report alongside a zip file containing your connectivity matrices to challenge.disco2021@gmail.com. The zip file should be named TeamName_Submissions.zip. Each submission (a 16x16 matrix in a text file format) should be named TeamName_Submission_XY.txt, where XY is a unique index (e.g. 01 for the first submission, 02 for the second, etc.).

Prize

We are happy to announce a Nvidia sponsorship of a GeForce RTX 3090 to the winning team of the DiSCO Challenge being held in collaboration with CDMRI 2021. The winning team of the challenge will be announced at the MICCAI-CDMRI 2021 workshop on October 1st. Top ranking teams will have the opportunity to briefly share their connectivity pipelines with the CDMRI workshop participants.