Announcing the PhysioNet-Kaggle Challenge

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The PhysioNet-Kaggle Challenge

Oct 21, 2024

We are delighted to announce a special Challenge, run jointly with Kaggle with a $50,000 prize pot. This is not the 2026 Challenge, which will be launched in early 2026 after this special Challenge ends.  This special Challenge will run for 3 months entirely on the Kaggle platform, and we will address questions on the Challenge in the associated Kaggle forum.

For this Challenge, we are revisiting the first of the two events in the 2024 Challenge - the extraction of digital ECG signals from scans of 12 lead ECG printouts, 

Why are we revisiting this problem? Well, although the classification of the images of these paper printouts was performed well, the extraction of the ECGs remains a largely unsolved problem. In addition, we have added new training data of varying images of physical printouts, to enhance the realism to improve training.

Please see this link for further information on how to enter. 

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/physionet-ecg-image-digitization

and the following articles for more background on the problem:

Reyna MA, Deepanshi, Weigle J, Koscova Z, Campbell K, Shivashankara KK, Saghafi S, Nikookar S, Motie-Shirazi M, Kiarashi Y, Seyedi S, Bjørnstad AM, Stenhede E, Ranjbar A, Clifford GD, and Sameni R. ECG-Image-Database: A dataset of ECG images with real-world imaging and scanning artifacts; a foundation for computerized ECG image digitization and analysis, 2024. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2409.16612.

Shivashankara KK, Deepanshi, Shervedani AM, Reyna MA, Clifford GD, Sameni R. ECG-Image-Kit: a synthetic image generation toolbox to facilitate deep learning-based electrocardiogram digitization. Physiological Measurement 2024; 45:055019. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/ad4954

Reyna MA, Deepanshi, Weigle J, Koscova Z, Campbell K, Seyedi S, Elola A, Bahrami Rad A, Shah AJ, Bhatia NK, Clifford GD, Sameni R. Digitization and Classification of ECG Images: The George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge 2024; Computing in Cardiology 2024; 51: 1-4.

For this limited Challenge, please post questions in the 'discussion' section of the Kaggle platform.

We hope to see you there!

Reza Sameni, Matt A. Reyna, and Gari D. Clifford