Submission Guidelines

Instructions

Teams wishing to participate to the challenge should respect the following deadlines:

• June 13th, 2014: Submission of a short paper (less than 4 pages long). Participants must use the LNCS templates (LaTeX2e or Word) available on the Springer website to prepare their paper. Papers must be submitted at the following address: challengeCETUS@creatis.insa-lyon.fr


• June 27th, 2014: Notification of acceptance.


• July 11th, 2014: Submission of a publication-ready paper. The content of this paper should respect the camera-ready format required by the MICCAI organizers. The corresponding recommandations are provided here.


• July 22nd, 2014: Deadlie for registration to MICCAI website.

In order to be efficient, we strongly recommend the authors to focus of the following points in their submitted paper:

• provide a description of the method. Specify whether the method is fully or semi-automatic. If the method is semi-automatic, how many clics are needed for the initialization;
  
  
• include a table summarizing results obtained for the training database;
  
  
• include a table summarizing results obtained for the testing database;
  
  
• provide a discussion section.

For the presentation of the results, we encoureage the participants to follow the way the results are presented in the Midas plateform by providing:

• both the mean and standard deviation scores obtained for each distance metric (MAD, HD, Modified Dice, Min Error and Max Error);
  
  
• both correlation and limit of agreement for the clinical indices (EF and SV). The reference values are provided through the Midas platform;
  
  
• a mean value of the CPU time needed to obtain the segmentation results.