Past News

September 20, 2024: We have released (and updated) the results of the 2024 Challenge. Congratulations to the winners! Please see the announcement for more details.
August 19, 2024: We have extended the official phase deadline to 23:59 GMT on August 21, 2024. Please see the deadlines for the updated deadlines.
July 9, 2024: The PhysioNet Challenges spent several days last month at Data Science Africa 2024. The DSAIL at DeKUT helped us to run a hackathon over 4 days with more than 50 attendees, including some that we will win a prize from the IEEE SPS at CinC 2024. Please see this announcement for more information about our trip to DSA.
June 14, 2024: Abstract decisions for CinC 2024 have been announced, and the official scoring system is open with a new validation data set that includes images of real paper ECGs. Please submit entries early and often; although you have 10 entries in the scoring system, we may limit each team to one request or deprioritize additional entries from a team in the final week because of the large numbers of entries that we receive in the final days of the Challenge, and because teams that enter earlier tend to perform better!
June 6, 2024: We have just completed a 3-day workshop at this year’s annual DSA meeting in Nyeri, Kenya. As part of this capacity-building initiative, we provided another working solution to the ECG image classification task. The code for this can be found here. The Challenge teams are welcome to use any part of this code in their entry, but we strongly suggest trying other approaches as well. In particular, we deliberately under-designed the model, which does not attempt to digitize the data for classification. We have posted this only to provide a working example, and not as a high bar to beat.
May 24, 2024: The official phase of the George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge 2024 has begun! We have made many updates to make the Challenge more accessible and more realistic. Please see our announcement on the Challenge forum for more details and begin submitting your updated entries in the coming days.
March 15, 2024: We are delighted to announce that the George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenges are partnering with Data Science Africa (DSA) and the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Challenges and Data Collections Committee (CDCC). The IEEE CDCC is supporting this year’s Challenge with additional cash prizes for participating teams from Africa, and the Challenge organizers will be running a workshop at this year’s annual DSA meeting in Kenya from June 2-5, 2024. Please note that we are also accepting (and scoring) entries, and there are two deadlines coming up: April 8, 2024 to submit a preliminary entry to the Challenge and April 15, 2024 to submit a (placeholder) abstract to CinC.
February 29, 2024: We are now accepting unofficial phase submissions for the 2024 Challenge. Please read the submissions instructions, double check your code, and submit your code when ready.
January 25, 2024: The NIH-funded George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge 2024 is now open! Please read this website for details and share questions and comments on Challenge forum. This year’s Challenge is generously sponsored by MathWorks and AWS.
October 10, 2023: The winners of the 2023 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.
February 1, 2022: We launched the PhysioNet Challenge 2022: Heart Murmur Detection from Phonocardiogram Recordings.
… more news to come!

Supported by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under NIH grant number R01EB030362.

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