Quick links for this year's Challenge:
- Registration form
- Example MATLAB and Python models and scoring code
- Submission instructions and form
- Leaderboard and results
- Public discussion forum
- Rules and deadlines
- Current and general FAQs
- About
George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenges
For the past 24 years, PhysioNet and Computing in Cardiology have co-hosted a series of annual challenges, now called the George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenges, to tackle clinically interesting questions that are either unsolved or not well-solved.
The George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge 2023 invites participants to predict outcomes for comatose patients in the hours following resuscitation from cardiac arrest.
We ask participants to design and implement working, open-source algorithms that, based only on the provided electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings and routine patient data, can predict good and poor outcomes for patients. The team with the best score for this task on the hidden test set wins the Challenge.
Please check the below links for information about current and past Challenges, including important details about scoring and test data for previous Challenges.
Select News
- October 10, 2023: The winners of the 2021 Challenge were announced on 4 October 2023 at CinC 2023 in Atlanta, GA, USA. Congratulations, teams! See the results and papers as well as the full announcement for the final steps in this year’s Challenge.
- June 6, 2023: The official phase of the George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge 2023: Predicting Neurological Recovery from Coma After Cardiac Arrest has begun! We have greatly expanded the data, which now includes continuous EEG and ECG recordings. Please see our announcement on the Challenge forum for more details and submit your code when ready.
- April 12, 2023: We have launched a PLOS Digital Health Collection on Cost-effective point-of-care monitoring in low-resource settings. We encourage the 2022 Challenge participants and other researchers to submit their work to the collection. Please see the announcement page for more information.
- March 24, 2023: We are now accepting unofficial phase submissions to the 2023 Challenge. Please read the submissions instructions, double check your code, and submit your code when ready.
- March 1, 2023: The PhysioNet Challenges are a winner the NIH/FASB DataWorks! Prize.
- February 10, 2023: We launched the George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge 2023: Predicting Neurological Recovery from Coma After Cardiac Arrest!
- July 8, 2022: We published an article, Rethinking Algorithm Performance Metrics for Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Medicine, in JAMA. This article explores the clinical utility of performance metrics for AI from the perspective of the Challenges.
- … see previous news articles here.
Current Challenge
Past Challenges
- 2022: Heart Murmur Detection from Phonocardiogram Recordings 44+ papers and 77 contributed software
- 2021: Will Two Do? Varying Dimensions in Electrocardiography
60+ papers and 58 contributed software - 2020: Classification of 12-lead ECGs
62+ papers and 70 contributed software - 2019: Early Prediction of Sepsis from Clinical Data
55+ papers and 91 contributed software - 2018: You Snooze, You Win
23 papers and 19 contributed software - 2017: AF Classification from a Short Single Lead ECG Recording
57 papers and 64 contributed software - 2016: Classification of Normal/Abnormal Heart Sound Recordings
11 papers and 48 contributed software - 2015: Reducing False Arrhythmia Alarms in the ICU
20 papers and 28 contributed software - 2014: Robust Detection of Heart Beats in Multimodal Data
15 papers and 35 contributed software - 2013: Noninvasive Fetal ECG
29 papers and 17 contributed software - 2012: Predicting Mortality of ICU Patients
17 papers and 58 contributed software - 2011: Improving the Quality of ECGs Collected using Mobile Phones
17 papers and 7 contributed software - 2010: Mind the Gap
13 papers and 5 contributed software - 2009: Predicting Acute Hypotensive Episodes
11 papers and 4 contributed software - 2008: Detecting and Quantifying T-Wave Alternans
19 papers and 5 + 1 contributed software - 2007: Electrocardiographic Imaging of Myocardial Infarction
6 papers - 2006: QT Interval Measurement
20 papers and 6 contributed software - 2005: The First Five Challenges Revisited
5 papers - 2004: Spontaneous Termination of Atrial Fibrillation
12 papers and 1 contributed software - 2003: Distinguishing Ischemic from Non-Ischemic ST Changes 3 papers and 1 contributed software
- 2002: RR Interval Time Series Modeling
12 papers and 10 contributed software - 2001: Predicting Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation
9 papers - 2000: Detecting Sleep Apnea from the ECG
13 papers and 1 contributed software
Supported by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under NIH grant number R01EB030362.