Dear ITK community,

As developers of image analysis algorithms I belive the following NLM sponsored 
challenge may be of interest to you:

Pill Image Recognition Challenge (http://pir.nlm.nih.gov/challenge)

In this Challenge, the National Library of Medicine at the U.S. National 
Institutes of Health invites individuals and teams to submit algorithms and 
software for pill image recognition. The submissions are to rank images taken 
from NLM's RxIMAGE database of high-quality prescription pill images by 
similarity to consumer-quality images of the same pills. NLM plans to use the 
submissions in creating a future software system and a future Application 
Programming Interface (API) that can be used in identifying an unknown 
prescription pill from a photo taken of that pill by a smart phone.

Prizes:
1st place:                                $25,000
2nd place:                               $15,000
3rd place:                                $5,000
Honorable mentions (2):    $2,500

The submission period for the Challenge is April 4, 2016 to May 31, 2016, with 
winners to be announced August 1, 2016.

Parties wishing to participate in the Challenge are provided with a training 
data set. The Challenge will be judged by calculating mean average precision 
(MAP) on a similar judging data set. The eligible submission with the highest 
MAP score will be recommended as the first place winner, with the second, 
third, fourth, and fifth best MAPs, respectively being recommended to earn 
second place, third place, and two honorable mentions.

      best regards
          Ziv
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