End of the unofficial phase of the PhysioNet Challenge 2024

[PhysioNet Challenge]

Dear Challengers,

The deadline for submitting an entry during the unofficial phase (8th April) is less than one week away, and the deadline for submitting your CinC abstract (15th April) is less than two weeks away! We are writing to remind you to submit an unofficial phase entry in the next day or two, and not in the hours or minutes before the deadline, in case there are unexpected errors with your entry that prevent us from scoring it.

Most first attempts fail for simple reasons. However, due to the large number of entries immediately before the deadline, we do not have the capacity to debug last-minute issues or the ability to accept changes after the submission deadline. Please remember that you must have at least one successful entry during the unofficial phase of the Challenge at least one of the digitization and classification tasks and an accepted CinC abstract to be eligible to be ranked at the end of the Challenge.

Please note that your Challenge abstract won’t be judged on the quality of your results, but rather on the coherence of your proposal of what you will do (which can change over the next several months). The Challenge website has more information on how to prepare a strong abstract.

Your participation during the unofficial phase of the Challenge is also invaluable for helping us to improve the Challenge before the official phase. Every year, we receive insightful feedback that arrives too late to implement for the Challenge, so please submit your entries and share your insights now so that we can incorporate them into the Challenge. We have already made (and continue to make and plan) changes to improve the Challenge with your feedback, which has been especially helpful this year.

For more updates on the Challenge and announcements, please visit our website and the Challenge discussion forum:
https://physionetchallenges.org/2024/
https://groups.google.com/g/physionet-challenges

We look forward to receiving your submissions to the Challenge.

Best,
Matt

(On behalf of the Challenge team.)

Please post questions and comments in the forum. However, if your question reveals information about your entry, then please email info at physionetchallenge.org. We may post parts of our reply publicly if we feel that all Challengers should benefit from it. We will not answer emails about the Challenge to any other address. This email is maintained by a group. Please do not email us individually.

[PhysioNet Challenge]

Dear Challengers,

We are extending the unofficial phase deadline by 48 hours until Wednesday, 10th April at 23.59 PM GMT. (Perhaps relatedly, we hope that those of you in North America were able to observe today's solar eclipse, and that others have an opportunity to observe one soon!)

If you have not yet submitted a successful entry during the unofficial phase of this year's Challenge, then please try to submit one before the extended deadline. If you have already submitted a successful entry, then congratulations, and please take the opportunity submit another. Either way, please review our advice about how to write a strong abstract (and specifically note the very common issues that are easy to avoid!) and the submit your CinC abstract by 15th April. We expect your approach to evolve between now and the end of the Challenge, but writing clearly and specifically about your approach is always a good idea, and good ideas are much more important than high scores at this stage of the Challenge, so please do not worry that a low score will negatively affect your chances of an accepted abstract.

Best,
Matt

(On behalf of the Challenge team.)

Please post questions and comments in the forum. However, if your question reveals information about your entry, then please email info at physionetchallenge.org. We may post parts of our reply publicly if we feel that all Challengers should benefit from it. We will not answer emails about the Challenge to any other address. This email is maintained by a group. Please do not email us individually.