Paper ID: 2305.08992
The Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) Challenge: Local Synthesis of Healthy Brain Tissue via Inpainting
Florian Kofler, Felix Meissen, Felix Steinbauer, Robert Graf, Stefan K Ehrlich, Annika Reinke, Eva Oswald, Diana Waldmannstetter, Florian Hoelzl, Izabela Horvath, Oezguen Turgut, Suprosanna Shit, Christina Bukas, Kaiyuan Yang, Johannes C. Paetzold, Ezequiel de da Rosa, Isra Mekki, Shankeeth Vinayahalingam, Hasan Kassem, Juexin Zhang, Ke Chen, Ying Weng, Alicia Durrer, Philippe C. Cattin, Julia Wolleb, M. S. Sadique, M. M. Rahman, W. Farzana, A. Temtam, K. M. Iftekharuddin, Maruf Adewole, Syed Muhammad Anwar, Ujjwal Baid, Anastasia Janas, Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Dominic LaBella, Hongwei Bran Li, Ahmed W Moawad, Gian-Marco Conte, Keyvan Farahani, James Eddy, Micah Sheller, Sarthak Pati, Alexandros Karagyris, Alejandro Aristizabal, Timothy Bergquist, Verena Chung, Russell Takeshi Shinohara, Farouk Dako, Walter Wiggins, Zachary Reitman, Chunhao Wang, Xinyang Liu, Zhifan Jiang, Elaine Johanson, Zeke Meier, Ariana Familiar, Christos Davatzikos, John Freymann, Justin Kirby, Michel Bilello, Hassan M Fathallah-Shaykh, Roland Wiest, Jan Kirschke, Rivka R Colen, Aikaterini Kotrotsou, Pamela Lamontagne, Daniel Marcus, Mikhail Milchenko, Arash Nazeri, Marc-André Weber, Abhishek Mahajan, Suyash Mohan, John Mongan, Christopher Hess, Soonmee Cha, Javier Villanueva-Meyer, Errol Colak, Priscila Crivellaro, Andras Jakab, Abiodun Fatade, Olubukola Omidiji, Rachel Akinola Lagos, O O Olatunji, Goldey Khanna, John Kirkpatrick, Michelle Alonso-Basanta, Arif Rashid, Miriam Bornhorst, Ali Nabavizadeh, Natasha Lepore, Joshua Palmer, Antonio Porras, Jake Albrecht, Udunna Anazodo, Mariam Aboian, Evan Calabrese, Jeffrey David Rudie, Marius George Linguraru, Juan Eugenio Iglesias, Koen Van Leemput, Spyridon Bakas, Benedikt Wiestler, Ivan Ezhov, Marie Piraud, Bjoern H Menze et al. (6 additional authors not shown) You must enable JavaScript to view entire author list.
A myriad of algorithms for the automatic analysis of brain MR images is available to support clinicians in their decision-making. For brain tumor patients, the image acquisition time series typically starts with an already pathological scan. This poses problems, as many algorithms are designed to analyze healthy brains and provide no guarantee for images featuring lesions. Examples include, but are not limited to, algorithms for brain anatomy parcellation, tissue segmentation, and brain extraction. To solve this dilemma, we introduce the BraTS inpainting challenge. Here, the participants explore inpainting techniques to synthesize healthy brain scans from lesioned ones. The following manuscript contains the task formulation, dataset, and submission procedure. Later, it will be updated to summarize the findings of the challenge. The challenge is organized as part of the ASNR-BraTS MICCAI challenge.
Submitted: May 15, 2023