<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-align: justify;" class=""><font face="Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" size="5" class=""><b class="">ENDOSCOPIC ARTEFACT DETECTION CHALLENGE (EAD 2019)</b></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-align: justify;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;" class="">We are excited to announce the challenge entitled "Multi-class artefact detection in endoscopy" which will take place during the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'19) to be held from the 8th to the 11th April 2019 in Venice, Italy. </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-align: justify;" class=""><a href="https://biomedicalimaging.org/2019/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="LPlnk624860" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://biomedicalimaging.org/2019/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;" class="">. </span></div><p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;" class="">The website for the challenge is:</span></div><p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-align: justify;"><a href="https://ead2019.grand-challenge.org/EAD2019/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="LPlnk910817" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class="">https://ead2019.grand-challenge.org/EAD2019/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;" class=""></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;" class="">The provisional half-day programme includes the presentation of two leading lecturers in endoscopic image processing, presentations of the ten most highly ranked methods in the challenge and awards !!! </span></div><p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;" class="">We invite you to compete in this challenge and/or to participate in the half-day specifically reserved in IEEE ISBI19 for this event in Venice (Registration for the entire symposium or only for the challenge is possible). </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black;" class=""><b class="">Travel grants and challenge registration grants are also available to PhD students and post doctoral researchers</b>. Please visit </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><a href="https://ead2019.grand-challenge.org/EAD2019/" class="">https://ead2019.grand-challenge.org/EAD2019/</a> for more details.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>