challengeR
challengeR: Methods and open-source toolkit for analyzing and visualizing challenge results
Description
challengeR is a tool for analyzing and visualizing challenge results in the field of image analysis and beyond.
Challenges have become the de facto standard for benchmarking image analysis algorithms. While the number of challenges is steadily increasing, surprisingly little effort has been invested in ensuring high quality design, execution and reporting for these international competitions. Specifically, results analysis and visualization in the event of uncertainties have been given almost no attention in the literature.
Given these shortcomings, challengeR aims to catalyze fast and widespread adoption of comprehensive analysis & visualization of competition results. challengeR offers an intuitive way to gain important insights into the relative and absolute performance of algorithms, including ranking uncertainties, which cannot be revealed by commonly applied visualization techniques.

Podium plot generated by challengeR © Division of Intelligent Medical Systems (IMSY) at DKFZ Heidelberg
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Authors: Wiesenfarth, M., Reinke, A., Landman, B.A., Eisenmann, M., Aguilera Saiz, L., Cardoso, M.J., Maier-Hein, L. and Kopp-Schneider, A., Kavur A.E
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Reference papers
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- 1.Author(s): Lena Maier-Hein, Annika Reinke, Patrick Godau, Minu D. Tizabi, Florian Buettner, Evangelia Christodoulou, Ben Glocker, Fabian Isensee, Jens Kleesiek, Michal Kozubek, Mauricio Reyes, Michael A. Riegler, Manuel Wiesenfarth, A. Emre Kavur, Carole H. Sudre, Michael Baumgartner, Matthias Eisenmann, Doreen Heckmann-Nötzel, Tim Rädsch, Laura Acion, Michela Antonelli, Tal Arbel, Spyridon Bakas, Arriel Benis, Matthew B. Blaschko, M. Jorge Cardoso, Veronika Cheplygina, Beth A. Cimini, Gary S. Collins, Keyvan Farahani, Luciana Ferrer, Adrian Galdran, Bram van Ginneken, Robert Haase, Daniel A. Hashimoto, Michael M. Hoffman, Merel Huisman, Pierre Jannin, Charles E. Kahn, Dagmar Kainmueller, Bernhard Kainz, Alexandros Karargyris, Alan Karthikesalingam, Florian Kofler, Annette Kopp-Schneider, Anna Kreshuk, Tahsin Kurc, Bennett A. Landman, Geert Litjens, Amin Madani, Klaus Maier-Hein, Anne L. Martel, Peter Mattson, Erik Meijering, Bjoern Menze, Karel G. M. Moons, Henning Müller, Brennan Nichyporuk, Felix Nickel, Jens Petersen, Nasir Rajpoot, Nicola Rieke, Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Clara I. Sánchez, Shravya Shetty, Maarten van Smeden, Ronald M. Summers, Abdel A. Taha, Aleksei Tiulpin, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris, Ben Van Calster, Gaël Varoquaux, Paul F. JägerPublished in 202410.1038/s41592-023-02151-z
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