International Contest on Pattern Recognition techniques for indirect immunofluorescence images analysis
This contest is a joint initiative organized by the University of Salerno (Italy) and the University of Queensland (Australia) with the support of the Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology (SNP), Australia. The contest primarily aims to provide a platform for scientists and practitioners for performing research to develop Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems for pathology tests utilizing indirect immunofluorescence protocol. In particular, the contest considers the Antinuclear Antibodies (ANA) test using Human Epithelial type 2 (HEp-2) cells. The competition is divided into four tasks that address specific problems: (1) HEp-2 cell classification; (2) Patient specimen classification; (3) HEp-2 mitotic cell identification and (4) Cell segmentation.