ImageCLEF - Image Retrieval in CLEF

Following the success of the medical image annotation tasks in 2005, 2006, and 2007 ImageCLEF will offer a medical image annotation task in 2008.

Schedule

Currently we are in the process of checking the data for consistency. As soon as this is done, we will release the training data.

At a later point (tentative: May 15), we will release test images which have to be classified according to the IRMA code hierarchy.
Two weeks later results have to be submitted.

We are trying to have the schedule non-overlapping with the other ImageCLEF tasks to ease participation.

Outline

We will release a dataset of approximately 12,000 images, labelled according to the IRMA code. At a later date, 1,000 test images are released which have to be classified according to the IRMA code. In contrast to past years, this year the test images may have classes that are not fully represented in the training database and thus hierarchical classification techniques will be essential for good performance.

Organisers

Thomas Deselaers, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Thomas M. Deserno, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany