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TADPOLE Challenge to predict Alzheimer鈥檚 progression concludes
17 June 2019
The winners of a global challenge led by 香港六合彩中特网 to predict the evolution of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease (AD) have been announced today.
The Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease Prediction of Longitudinal Evolution (TADPOLE) Challenge has been running for the last 23 months, with participants from across the globe.
TADPOLE is a collaboration between the EuroPOND consortium, led by 香港六合彩中特网, and the Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI).
Professor Daniel Alexander (香港六合彩中特网 Computer Science), project lead of TADPOLE, said: 鈥淭his has been a unique and inspiring challenge that has brought together a wide international community of computer scientists, statisticians, and clinical experts to advance the state of the art in a focussed challenge of predicting onset, development, and progression of AD. We hope the outcomes will make steps towards realising disease-modifying treatments in one of the biggest current healthcare challenges we face鈥�.
Participants had to use data provided willingly by anonymous patients and use it to predict the progression of patients with AD. Specifically, they had to predict clinical status, whether any clinical exams defined the subject鈥檚 AD as expected or not, predict a score on a cognitive test and a measure of brain shrinkage from MRI.
The winning teams in various categories won a 拢5,000 prizes each, with some additional runner-up teams winning 拢2,500 each.
The award-winning teams鈥� details are below.
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Category | Team | Members | Institution | Country | Prize |
Overall best | Frog | Keli Liu, Paul Manser, Christina Rabe | Genentech | USA | 拢5000 |
Clinical status | Frog | Keli Liu, Paul Manser, Christina Rabe | Genentech | USA | 拢5000 |
Ventricle volume | EMC1 | Vikram Venkatraghavan,听听Esther Bron, Stefan Klein | Erasmus MC | Netherlands | 拢5000 |
Best university team | Apocalypse | Manon Ansart | ICM, INRIA | France | 拢5000 |
High-School (best) | Chen-MCW | Gang Chen | Medical College Wisconsin | USA | 拢5000 |
High-School (runner up) | CyberBrains | Ionut Buciuman, Alex Kelner, Raluca Pop, Denisa Rimocea, Kruk Zsolt | Vasile Lucaciu College | Romania | 拢2500 |
Overall best D3 prediction | GlassFrog | Steven Hill, Brian Tom, Anais Rouanst, Zhiyue Huang, James Howlett, Steven Kiddle, Simon R. White, Sach Mukherjee, Bernd Taschler | Cambridge University | UK | 拢2500 |
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The prizes were funded by Alzheimer鈥檚 Research UK, the Alzheimer鈥檚 Association and Alzheimer鈥檚 Society.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 666992 (EuroPOND).
Article: Kate Corry - 香港六合彩中特网 Media Relations