🗓 Timeline


Schedule for Light My Cells Challenge and ISBI 2024

  • 26/01 - Challenge & website page opening ✅
  • 26/01 Registrations opens (until 30/03) ✅
  • 01 14/02 - Release & schedule of the Training Database ✅
  • 15/03 - Phase 1 starts until 30/03 04 12/04
    • this is a preliminary test phase with 5 submissions available out of 36 test images. The results given are mainly for the participants and will not be taken into account in the final ranking.
  • 01 04 13/04 - Phase 2 starts until 20/04
    •   this is the final test phase with only one submission available, which will produce the scores for the final ranking.
  • 06 18/04 - Paper submission deadline for ISBI 2024
    • Challenge participants submit their papers on the CMT platform (challenge track)
    • Review period is open for 2 weeks (and metareview)
    • the challenge is still ongoing
  • 20 25/04 - Challenge paper authors receive reviews through CMT platform (& end of Phase 2 )
    • the organizing team will inform the authors of the challenge papers. They will then have a week to respond to comments and make any final methodological changes.
    • the organizing team will invite every "valid" paper submitter to:
    • 1. Present their method at the conference (oral or poster will be decided by 06/05)
    • 2. Be co-authors of the meta-analysis journal manuscript
  • 27 30/04 - (FINAL – Camera-ready) Revised paper submissions deadline
    • 1 week for final review/acceptance by the organizers of each challenge
    • Ranking process of the challenge
  • 06/05 - Notification of oral versus poster presenters ⏳
    • oral papers are top-performers & interesting methods
  • 27/05 - Conference – Announcement of winners ⏳