ICDM 2009 Data Mining Contest

**********************************
 ICDM 2009 Data Mining Contest
 **********************************
* PBC Brain Connectivity Challenge
* 2009 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Data Mining
* Pittsburgh Brain Competition Brain Connectivity Challenge

Brief summary:

The competition involves applying data mining to map the “cables ofthe human brain” mapping ~300,000 fiber streamlines into 20-50 cablesor tracts. It involves two challenges
1) Supervised learning tomatch the categorization of an expert, and
2) Unsupervised learning ofwithin and between subject segmentation. A short YouTube presentationdetails the competition including illustrations of the fiber tracts.Details are available at the web site braincompetition.org. Allentrants will be able to compare their scores relative to all theother completed entrants. Awards will be announced at ICDM December2009. They will include: Supervised Learning Match Expert Award$2000 (US); Unsupervised Learning Within and Between Subject Award;and possibly a Contest Crown Award (if a group scores top in bothaward categories including $1000 and the option to have the teamleader have their brain scanned to create a fiber map of their brain).

Key dates:

Data training data available: Sept. 14, 2009
Full data: Oct. 1, 2009 Results due: Nov. 2, 2009
Write-ups: Nov. 6, 2009
Important links: Competition website: http://www.cse.ust.hk/~qyang/icdm2009/
Youtube Overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIDv4FLRg_4
ICDM 2009: http://www.cs.umbc.edu/ICDM09/
Competition full description: http://schweb1.lrdc.pitt.edu/pbc/2009b/media/IEEE_IDCM_PBC_BrainCompetitionRules.pdf
Contact email: pbc(at)pitt.edu

This contest is sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh, WalterSchneider competition director.

--
Omar U. Florez
Graduate Research Assistant – Data Mining
Department of Computer Science – Utah State University
Logan, UT-84321, USA
http://omarflorez.info/