[ICDM 2009] Data Mining Contest - Call for Participation

* ICDM 2009 Data Mining Contest * * PBC Brain Connectivity Challenge * 2009 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Data Mining * Pittsburgh Brain Competition Brain Connectivity Challenge Brief summary: The competition involves applying data mining to map the “cables of the human brain” mapping ~300,000 fiber streamlines into 20-50 cables or tracts. It involves two challenges 1) Supervised learning to match the categorization of an expert, and 2) Unsupervised learning of within and between subject segmentation. A short YouTube presentation details the competition including illustrations of the fiber tracts. Details are available at the web site braincompetition.org. All entrants will be able to compare their scores relative to all the other completed entrants. Awards will be announced at ICDM December 2009. They will include: Supervised Learning Match Expert Award $2000 (US); Unsupervised Learning Within and Between Subject Award; and possibly a Contest Crown Award (if a group scores top in both award categories including $1000 and the option to have the team leader have their brain scanned to create a fiber map of their brain). Key dates: Data training data available: Sept. 14, 2009 Full data: Oct. 1, 2009 Results due: Nov. 2, 2009 Write-ups: Nov. 6, 2009 Important links: Competition website: http://www.cse.ust.hk/~qyang/icdm2009/ Youtube Overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIDv4FLRg_4 ICDM 2009: http://www.cs.umbc.edu/ICDM09/ Competition Full description: http://schweb1.lrdc.pitt.edu/pbc/2009b/media/IEEE_IDCM_PBC_BrainCompetitionRules.pdf Contact email: pbc(at)pitt.edu This contest is sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh, Walter Schneider competition director.