Contact - ICDAR 2017 Challenge on Text Extraction from Biomedical Literature Figures

Chun YANG, PhD Student at Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China.

Xu-Cheng YIN, Professor and Deputy Chair at Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China.

Hong YU, Professor, Dept of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester; Adjunct Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Research Health Scientist, VA Central Western Massachusetts, MA, USA.  

Dimosthenis KARATZAS, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Director at the Computer Vision Centre, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Yu CAO, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Co-Director, UMass Center for Digital Health, University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA, USA.

Dexter PRATT, NDEx Project Director, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA. 

Guangping GAO, Professor, Dept of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MA, USA.  

 

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Important Dates

  • April, 1: Datasets available.

  • June, 10:  Testing set release.

  • June, 30: Submission of results deadline.

  • November, 10-15: Results presentation.