Challenge submission deadline: Jun. 1, 2023

Challenge Description

The Hypertensive Retinopathy Diagnosis Challenge (HRDC) is the first edition associated with the Workshop of Visual Computing for Ophthalmology, which is part of Computer Graphics International (CGI) 2023, to be held from 28 August to 1 September 2023. The challenge focuses on the application of machine learning and deep learning algorithms in the computer-aided automatic diagnosis of hypertensive retinopathy. With this challenge, different algorithms can test their performance and make a fair comparison with other algorithms. The following two tasks are proposed in this challenge, and participants are free to choose one or more tasks. Specific submission instructions can be found on the challenge website.

• Task 1: Hypertension classification. Given a fundus image of a patient's eye, the task is to confirm whether this patient suffers from hypertension. Category 0 represents no hypertension and category 1 represents hypertension. This is a two-class classification task.
   
• Task 2: Hypertensive retinopathy classification. Given a fundus image of a patient's eye, the purpose of the task is to confirm whether this eye suffers from hypertensive retinopathy. Category 0 represents no hypertensive retinopathy and category 1 represents hypertensive retinopathy. This is a two-class classification task.

Important Dates

• Release of training data: April 9th 2023.
• Challenge leaderboard submission: April 20th 2023.
• Challenge submission deadline: June 1st 2023 for evaluation of code submission on test set.
• Paper submission deadline: June 12th 2023 for method description paper.

Method Description Paper Submission

The detailed submission guidelines and format can be found on the Visual Computing for Ophthalmology workshop website. The accepted papers will be included either in the CGI conference Proceedings published by LNCS, Springer, or in the VRIH journal (Virtual Reality and Intelligent Hardware journal published by Science Press).

Challenge chairs

Bin Sheng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Ping Zhang, The Ohio State University, Ohio, USA (TDAI Core Faculty member)

Carol Y Cheung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Jing Qin, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Important websites

• Challenge website: http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi23/cgi-hrdc2023
• CGI conference website: http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi23
• Visual computing for ophthalmology workshop website: http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi23/cgi-vcfo2023/

Contact

For questions about the HRDC challenge, please feel free to contact us via the official challenge email cgihrdc@163.com