Synapse2015

A platform for end-to-end development of machine learning solutions in biomedical imaging. Challenges in medical image analysis became popular after the organization of the Grand Challenges for Medical Image Analysis at the MICCAI conference in 2007. Hosting challenge events quickly became commonplace for conferences: MICCAI, ISBI, and SPIE Medical Imaging, amongst others, have hosted challenge events. Leading journals such as IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging and Medical Image Analysis have welcomed overview papers that described the results of individual challenges. Maintaining a challenge, so that new submissions are quickly processed upon submission, is a lot of work. Typically, a junior researcher at some institution is responsible for maintaining a challenge website, but at some point the researcher moves on and the site is no longer kept up-to-date. Grand Challenge was created in 2010 to make it easy for organizers of challenges to set up a website for a particular challenge. Its aim was to bring all information on challenges in the domain of biomedical image analysis available in a single place. In 2012 we switched to Django web framework, marking 2012 as our founding year.