Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to announce the kickoff of the 2019 ISIC Challenge on Skin Lesion Analysis. 25,332 images are available for training across 8 different categories. Additionally, the test dataset (planned release August 2nd) will contain an outlier class (
not represented in the training data), which developed artificial intelligence and machine learning systems must be able to identify.

Two tasks are defined: 1) classify dermoscopic images without meta-data, and 2) classify images with additional available meta-data. Task 1's deadline will be August 9th. Task 2's deadline will be August 16th, after release of test meta-data on August
9th. Participants of Task 2 must submit to Task 1 as well, though participants can submit to Task 1 alone.

Please visit the challenge website for more information, to download data, and to ask questions on the challenge forum: http://challenge2019.isic-archive.com/

Sponsors
- Canfield Scientific
- IBM
- MetaOptima

Clinical Chairs
- Josep Malvehy, M.D. (University Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
- Allan Halpern, M.D. (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, NY, USA)

Computer Vision Chairs
- Noel C. F. Codella, Ph.D. (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA)

Challenge Co-Chairs
- M. Emre Celebi, Ph.D. (University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR, USA)
- Marc Combalia, M.S. (Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica, Barcelona, Spain)
- David Gutman, M.D., Ph.D. (Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)
- Brian Helba (Kitware, Inc., Clifton Park, NY, USA)
- Harald Kittler, M.D. (Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
- Veronica Rotemberg, M.D., Ph.D. (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, NY, USA)
- Philipp Tschandl, M.D., Ph.D. (Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)

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