Computer Vision News - March 2022

59 Tumor InfiltratinG lymphocytes in breast cancER in future with follow-up challenges. For us, it’s imperative first to show that AI can drive the quantification of TILs, then that TILs have a prognostic value on an independent test set. This challenge is the first step to eventually applying them in clinical practice. ” Visit the challenge website to sign up and download the training dataset. keen to stress that they are part of a wider multidisciplinary team of organizers . They are on the technical side, but pathologists have annotated the data, engineers have built and maintained the web-based platform, and multiple clinical centers have provided data. The concept for the challenge originated from a collaboration between Francesco’s research group and the International Immuno-Oncology Working Group , a multidisciplinary group of clinicians led by Roberto Salgado , a pathologist working in Belgium. The TIGER challenge is a close collaboration between Roberto’s group, the Radboud University Medical Centre , and Amazon AWS . Amazon AWS is sponsoring the challenge by giving access to computing power to run the algorithms and offering a prize for the top three methods in both leaderboards. In total, there is $13,000 in AWS credits available to the winners. “ This is just the first step, ” Francesco adds. “ There are more questions we can address