Abstracts and relation to the Challenge

[Michal Szafarczyk]

Dear Challenge Authors and other Participants,

My team and I joined the challenge recently, and I'm a little confused with the Abstracts for CinC that are supposed to be submitted by the deadline of April 15th. So far, we've submitted only something we consider a "stronger baseline" and now we're working on an actual solution to the problem. My question is, what exactly should the Abstract include? Should it just be the solution that we'll be able to finish during the Unofficial phase? Or should we explain our whole idea for the solution in this challenge (even if it wouldn't be submitted in the Unofficial phase)?

Best Regards,

Michał Szafarczyk

[PhysioNet Challenge]

Dear Michał,

The answers to all of your questions are "yes": your abstract should describe both what you have done during the unofficial phase of the Challenge and what you plan to do during the official phase of the Challenge.

We understand and expect that your approach will evolve over the next several months, and you are able and encouraged to update your description of your approach for the CinC conference, so please do include details about your "stronger baseline" model, including the scores on the public leaderboard, as well as your plans for your actual solution. Of course, you should clearly differentiate between what you have already done and what you plan to do.

Importantly, please do not use your limited number of words to describe the Challenge, but instead focus on your current and planned methodology and observations. If you are using certain features or a certain model, then please tell us what and why. If you anticipate that some aspect of the data or task is important to address, and your current or planned methods address it in some way, then please say so.

Please see this part of the webpage for more advice about writing and submitting your abstract:
https://physionetchallenges.org/2026/#abstracts

Best,
Matt
(On behalf of the Challenge team.)

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