Standard Info

Dates (schedule available here)
  1. Hackathon period: August 6th at 10:00 EDT - August 8th at 16:00 EDT.
  2. After you found a team: choose one or more opt-in category(ies) that you would like your team's project to be considered in (more details in Prizes and Categories).
  3. Submission period: August 8th at 10:00 EDT - 11:00 EDT
  4. Submission deadline: August 8th at 11:00 EDT
  5. Judging period: August 8th 12:30 - 14:00 EDT
  6. Announcement for winners and honourable mentions: August 8th 15:00 - 16:00 EDT.
Eligibility
  1. Ideally, a team should have 3 or 4 members. If you have < 3 or > 5 people on your team, please check eligibility by emailing us at medhacks2021@gmail.com, or directly talk to the Hackathon co-directors on the GatherTown space.
  2. Above the legal age of majority in the country of residence.
  3. Any countries/territories could participate 
  4. Any level of medical imaging analysis and deep learning experiences is allowed to participate, though some experiences are preferred.
Prizes & Categories: 
  1. Opt-in categories: 
    1. Alpha Tau DaRT seed detction Grand Challenge: $CAD200 cash value
    2. Best Segmentation / Detection Challenge: $CAD100 cash value
    3. Best Classification Challenge: $CAD100 cash value
    4. Best Visualization Challenge $CAD100 cash value
    5. Best Generative Adversarial Network Challenge: $CAD100 cash value
  2. Automatically considered categories:
    1. Most Innovative Solutions for Medical Image Analysis: $CAD200 cash value.
    2. Rising Star Award: $CAD100 cash value
    3. Most upvoted prize: $CAD100 cash value
    4. Best Unfinished project: $CAD100 cash value

Finally, we will have honourable mentions for each category