To participate, you have to agree to the following rules:

• The submission guidance has been provided, please see the Evaluation.

• Only the last submission will be considered for the challenge results, so don't forget to submit your best results before the deadline.

• Only fully automated methods are accepted as the submission. It is not possible to submit manual annotations or interactive methods.

• Submissions will be ranked based on their performance on the test set according to the metrics explained in the Evaluation page.

• Anonymous registrations are not allowed. All the information while registration as a team or individual must be complete and correct.

• For all sub-challenges, participants may use other datasets for the development of a method that will be submitted to the challenge, provided that the datasets are publicly available and clearly stated in the submitted paper. Also, the pre-trained models on public datasets are accepted, such as Imagenet.

Paper Submission

• In order to be eligible for the official ranking, participants must submit a corresponding paper that highlights the main steps their final methods, such as data preprocessing and augmentation, method description, post processing, and results etc. The paper should be in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format, available in Overleaf.

• The paper should be at least 4 pages. For papers that are willing to be included in the MICCAI Proceedings, we prefer papers with more than 6 pages.

• The paper should be sent to our official Email address. In the email, you should explain or use a screenshot of your results in the leaderboards to prove your ranking.

• When participating in multiple tasks, you can either submit a single paper reporting all methods and results or several papers.

MICCAI 2022 Challenge Proceedings

• After the challenge, the organizers plan to publish a challenge proceeding that is a part of the MICCAI 2022 Challenge Proceedings. We will coordinate the review of the submitted papers, and then give advice for revision. The finally accepted papers will be published in MICCAI 2022 Challenge Proceedings.

• Authors should consult Springer’s Instructions for Authors of Proceedings and use either the LaTeX or the Word templates provided on the authors’ page for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers.

• The corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a License-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. Please attach the completed signed form to your email, along with the paper.

• The participants are encouraged to release their code and add the GitHub link to their papers.

• MICCAI 2021 Challenge Proceedings can be found here for reference.

Summary Paper Publication

• After the challenge, the organizers aim to publish a summary of the challenge in a top ranked peer-reviewed journal. The methods from the top-3 teams in each task will be included in the summary paper. The first and last author of the submitted paper will qualify as authors in the summary paper. For these teams, they must submit the corresponding papers and source code to ensure fairness.

• Subsequent post-challenge participants may publish papers including their method performance on the challenge data set, and the following papers must be cited.

Qian B, Chen H, Wang X, et al. DRAC: Diabetic Retinopathy Analysis Challenge with Ultra-Wide Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Images[J]. arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.02389, 2023.

*The challenge organizers reserve the right to update the rules.