Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge 2019: People
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Organizing Committee
- Spyridon (Spyros) Bakas, Ph.D., — [Lead Organizer]
Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (CBICA), SBIA, UPenn, PA, USA - Bjoern Menze, Ph.D.,
Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany - Christos Davatzikos, Ph.D., Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (CBICA), SBIA, UPenn, PA, USA
- Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Ph.D.,
Athinoula A. Martinos for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, HMS, USA - Keyvan Farahani, Ph.D.,
Cancer Imaging Program, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health, USA
Data Contributors
- John B. Freymann & Justin S. Kirby - on behalf of The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA),
Cancer Imaging Program, NCI, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA - Christos Davatzikos, Ph.D., Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (CBICA), SBIA, UPenn, PA, USA
- Hassan Fathallah-Shaykh, M.D., Ph.D.,
University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA - Roland Wiest, M.D.,
University of Bern, Switzerland - Andras Jakab, M.D., Ph.D.,
University of Debrecen, Hungary - Rivka R. Colen, M.D., & Aikaterini (Katerina) Kotrotsou, Ph.D.,
MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX, USA 
Daniel Marcus, PhD, & Mikhail Milchenko, PhD, & Arash Nazeri, MD, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, USA
Marc-Andre Weber, M.D., Heidelberg University, Germany
Abhishek Mahajan, M.D., & Ujjwal Baid, M-Tech., Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India, & SGGS Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nanded, India
Awards Sponsor
- Prashant Shah & G Anthony Reina – on behalf of Intel AI
Acknowledgements
- Russell Takeshi Shinohara, Ph.D., (Biostatistician - UPenn) for his assistance in the survival prediction validation.
- Chiharu Sako, Sung Min Ha, and Martin Rozycki (Data Analysts - UPenn) for their invaluable assistance in the datasets' organization.
- Christoph Berger (Research student - TUM) for his efforts on maintaining the BraTS algorithmic repository.
Feel free to send any communication related to the BraTS challenge in brats2019@cbica.upenn.edu