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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Call for Participants: IISE DAIS Case Study Competition 2024<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The Data Analytics Competition is an annual student competition event organized by the Data Analytics and Information
Systems (DAIS) division of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). The main objective of the competition is to provide the students with the opportunity to learn, showcase, and enhance their data analysis and visualization skills through
working with real-world problems with real-sized data sets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">PROBLEM DESCRIPTION (</span></b><a href="https://doi.org/10.7937/TCIA.5FNA-0924">link to paper</a><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">)</span></b><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver cancer, with incidences doubled over the past
two decades due to increasing risk factors. Despite surveillance, the majority of HCC cases are diagnosed at advanced stages that can be treated only using (Transarterial chemoembolization) TACE, or systemic therapy. TACE failure can occur in 60% of patients
receiving the procedure, with subsequent financial and emotional burdens. Radiomics has emerged as a new tool capable of predicting tumor response to TACE from the pre-procedural CT study.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">This dataset retrospectively acquired data collection includes pre- and post-procedure CT imaging studies of 105
confirmed HCC patients who underwent TACE between 2002 and 2012 with an available treatment outcome, in the form of time-to-progression and overall survival. Baseline imaging includes multiphasic contrast-enhanced CT with no image artifacts (e.g. surgical
clip) and was obtained 1-12 weeks (average 3 weeks) prior to the first TACE session. Semiautomatic segmentation of liver, tumor, and blood vessels created using AMIRA was manually clinically curated. These segmentations of each pre-procedural CT study were
done for the purpose of algorithm training for prediction and automatic liver tumor segmentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Two datasets will be provided for this competition:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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and post-procedure CT images</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> in the format of DICOM-Seg. We suggest the participants use the latest stable version of 3D-Slicer for data visualization after installing
the “quantitative reporting” extension. Step-by-step installation and guidance can be found in: </span><a href="https://qiicr.gitbook.io/quantitativereporting-guide/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://qiicr.gitbook.io/quantitativereporting-guide/</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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table of <b>clinical data</b> with descriptions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The participants of this case study competition are required to complete the following tasks:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Specific Task</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">:
Please segment the tumors from CT images. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Individuals or teams of a maximum of four members. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Student members can be undergraduate or graduate students from higher education institutes in the field of Industrial & Systems
Engineering or related fields.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Student members should be enrolled at the time of the submission of the proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">At least one of the team members must be an active member of the Data Analytics and Information System (DAIS) division of
IISE.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A team must submit a notice of intent to participate in the competition.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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A team must submit a notice of intent to participate in the competition via email to the chairs of the competition steering committee by <b>Friday, Jan. 26, 2024</b>. The notice of intent needs to include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The list of names of team members, their affiliations, and contact information (email and phone).<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">One team member is identified as the main contact. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The competition chairs will share the description of competition challenge questions and data set through email
to the main contact provided by the team on <b>Friday, Feb. 2, 2024</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Participating teams or individuals are required to submit a single compressed file that includes 1) a final report, and 2) the source code and scripts via email to the chair of the competition steering committee by <b>Friday, March 1, 2024</b>. The competition
steering committee will evaluate the submissions, and a maximum of top four teams will be selected as finalists. More details about the submission guidelines and review criteria will be released along with the competition challenge questions and data set.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The selected finalist teams and individuals will present the model motivation, model approach, and results at the 2024 IISE Annual Conference & Expo, <b>May 18 – 21, 2024 Montreal, Canada</b>. More information on the presentation contents will be provided to
the finalist teams. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The competition steering committee will review and approve or reject the submitted notices of intent to participate based on the eligibility criteria. Approval emails will be sent together with the competition challenge questions and dataset by the chair of
the committee by <b>Friday, Feb. 2, 2024</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The competition steering committee will select a maximum of four finalist teams. Finalist teams will be notified by email by the chair of the committee by <b>Thursday, March 8, 2024</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The selected finalist teams will present their results in 2024 IISE Annual Conference & Expo, <b>May 18 – 21, 2024 Montreal, Canada</b>. A blind vote cast by invited judges will decide the winner after the presentations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Notice of Intent:<b> Jan. 26, 2024</b><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Notice of the team approval:<b> Feb. 2, 2024</b><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Competition challenge questions are made available: <b>Feb. 2, 2024</b><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Deadline for submission of the results: <b>March 1, 2024</b><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Notification to the finalist teams: <b>March 8, 2024</b><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">IISE Annual Conference & Expo, <b>May 19 – 22, 2024</b><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Xiaoyu Chen, </span><a href="mailto:xchen325@buffalo.edu"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">xchen325@buffalo.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">,
University at Buffalo, SUNY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Yinan Wang, </span><a href="mailto:wangy88@rpi.edu"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">wangy88@rpi.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute </span></p>
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Yinan Wang, Ph.D.; Assistant Professor<br>
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 5213 Center of Industrial Innovations (CII)<br>
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