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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Dear fellow CV and ML enthusiasts and researchers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Are you interested in seeing you algorithms potentially saving lives under emergency care? Are you eager to explore uncharted territories of using artificial
intelligence for virtual surgical assistants? What about using AI for video understanding in first-person view datasets? Are you curious about multimodal medical image understanding? If so, we invite you to be part of The Trauma THOMPSON Challenge and submit
your algorithms to push the boundaries of AI and machine learning in the medical domain</span><span style="color: black;">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Full details below: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Call for Participation to The Trauma THOMPSON Challenge at MICCAI 2023, Vancouver, BC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Event: The Trauma THOMPSON Challenge <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Location: Co-located with MICCAI 2023 (Satellite Event)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Date: October 12, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">TIME: AM Session<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Abstract Submission Deadline: September 8th, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Paper Submission Deadline: September 15th, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Challenge Website: <a href="https://thompson-challenge.grand-challenge.org/" originalsrc="https://thompson-challenge.grand-challenge.org/" shash="lWM4Ndic5/YFcrRYlKgYqtXpJYWJfDMrDui2RhIZEOqpbbkOXUWJcxFPJA6jXVxEZLwt9b3EvvMfZXhjLXFB4EZTV6bLukMcoy2ufCdVJTcf2ezNXCrRjpzz/gidQB+HmRpH8eUtpqufYxys0ECic2XOsr9LIQE+zLEZ+xrYgwA=" title="Original URL:
https://thompson-challenge.grand-challenge.org/
Click to follow link." style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">https://thompson-challenge.grand-challenge.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Challenge Overview<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">The primary goal of The Trauma THOMPSON Challenge is to find the best algorithms for automatic action recognition and </span><span style="color: black;">prediction
using<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>machine learning<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">from first-person view in the medical domain (refer to egocentric datasets of medical procedures). We offer the
first egocentric view dataset of life-saving intervention (LSI) procedures with detailed annotations by medical professionals. The envisioned algorithms include action recognition, action anticipation, procedure recognition, and visual question answering (VQA). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">The challenge participation details are available on our <a href="https://thompson-challenge.grand-challenge.org/" originalsrc="https://thompson-challenge.grand-challenge.org/" shash="lWM4Ndic5/YFcrRYlKgYqtXpJYWJfDMrDui2RhIZEOqpbbkOXUWJcxFPJA6jXVxEZLwt9b3EvvMfZXhjLXFB4EZTV6bLukMcoy2ufCdVJTcf2ezNXCrRjpzz/gidQB+HmRpH8eUtpqufYxys0ECic2XOsr9LIQE+zLEZ+xrYgwA=" title="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthompson-challenge.grand-challenge.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cjpwachs%40purdue.edu%7Ceca1941cfa9e4be56e4c08db8f8e26b2%7C4130bd397c53419cb1e58758d6d63f21%7C0%7C0%7C638261612919710644%7CUnknown%7C" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">challenge
website</a>. There will be prizes for the top performers!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Call for Participation and Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">There will be 2 tracks for this challenge and a total of 4 challenge tasks. All accepted papers will be included in the MICCAI challenge proceedings (Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume in the challenges subline). We have a leaderboard for each task and submitting a paper (min 4 pages, max 12 pages, LNCS format) is mandatory for a corresponding submission in any task to be eligible in the official ranking. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"> We have prizes for top performing teams in each task and the best paper award. The details are available on our <a href="https://thompson-challenge.grand-challenge.org/" originalsrc="https://thompson-challenge.grand-challenge.org/" shash="lWM4Ndic5/YFcrRYlKgYqtXpJYWJfDMrDui2RhIZEOqpbbkOXUWJcxFPJA6jXVxEZLwt9b3EvvMfZXhjLXFB4EZTV6bLukMcoy2ufCdVJTcf2ezNXCrRjpzz/gidQB+HmRpH8eUtpqufYxys0ECic2XOsr9LIQE+zLEZ+xrYgwA=" title="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthompson-challenge.grand-challenge.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cjpwachs%40purdue.edu%7Ceca1941cfa9e4be56e4c08db8f8e26b2%7C4130bd397c53419cb1e58758d6d63f21%7C0%7C0%7C638261612919710644%7CUnknown%7C" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">challenge
website</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">● Train data release: 11:59 PM EST, Jul. 6th, 2023 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">● Test data release: 11:59 PM EST, Aug. 15th, 2023 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">● Participation declaration form deadline: 11:59 PM EST, Aug. 25th, 2023 \- All teams must enter before this date!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">● Deadline for results submission: 11:59 PM EST, Sep. 1st, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">● Submit your inference code + checkpoint: 11:59 PM EST, Sep. 5th, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">● Abstract submission: 11:59 PM EST, Sep. 8th, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">● Full Paper submission deadline: 11:59 PM EST, Sep. 15th, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">● Winner announcement: 11:59 PM EST, Sep. 22nd, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">● Conference date: AM session, Oct. 8th, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Organizing Committee: Nina Jiang, Yupeng Zhuo, Juan Wachs (Purdue University); Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Jessica McKee (University of Calgary); Kyle Couperus,
Christopher Colombo, Oanh Tran, Jonah Beck, DeAnna DeVane, (The Geneva Foundation).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">If you have any questions about the Trauma THOMPSON Challenge, please email Nina Jiang (<a href="mailto:jiang841@purdue.edu" title="mailto:jiang841@purdue.edu" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">jiang841@purdue.edu</a>),
Yupeng Zhuo (<a href="mailto:zhuoy@purdue.edu" title="mailto:zhuoy@purdue.edu" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">zhuoy@purdue.edu</a>), and Oanh Tran (<a href="mailto:otran@genevausa.org" title="mailto:otran@genevausa.org" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">otran@genevausa.org</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><i>***Disclaimers: The views expressed are those of the author(s) and do not reflect the official policy of the Department of the Army, the Department of
Defense, or the U.S. Government. </i></span></p>
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