The Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) Challenge 2023: Local Synthesis of Healthy Brain Tissue via Inpainting

15 May 2023 · Florian Kofler, Felix Meissen, Felix Steinbauer, Robert Graf, Eva Oswald, Ezequiel de da Rosa, Hongwei Bran Li, Ujjwal Baid, Florian Hoelzl, Oezguen Turgut, Izabela Horvath, Diana Waldmannstetter, Christina Bukas, Maruf Adewole, Syed Muhammad Anwar, Anastasia Janas, Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Dominic LaBella, Ahmed W Moawad, Keyvan Farahani, James Eddy, Timothy Bergquist, Verena Chung, Russell Takeshi Shinohara, Farouk Dako, Walter Wiggins, Zachary Reitman, Chunhao Wang, Xinyang Liu, Zhifan Jiang, Ariana Familiar, Gian-Marco Conte, Elaine Johanson, Zeke Meier, Christos Davatzikos, John Freymann, Justin Kirby, Michel Bilello, Hassan M Fathallah-Shaykh, Roland Wiest, Jan Kirschke, Rivka R Colen, Aikaterini Kotrotsou, Pamela Lamontagne, Daniel Marcus, Mikhail Milchenko, Arash Nazeri, Marc-André Weber, Abhishek Mahajan, Suyash Mohan, John Mongan, Christopher Hess, Soonmee Cha, Javier Villanueva-Meyer, Errol Colak, Priscila Crivellaro, Andras Jakab, Jake Albrecht, Udunna Anazodo, Mariam Aboian, Juan Eugenio Iglesias, Koen van Leemput, Spyridon Bakas, Daniel Rueckert, Benedikt Wiestler, Ivan Ezhov, Marie Piraud, Bjoern Menze ·

A myriad of algorithms for the automatic analysis of brain MR images is available to support clinicians in their decision-making. For brain tumor patients, the image acquisition time series typically starts with a scan that is already pathological. This poses problems, as many algorithms are designed to analyze healthy brains and provide no guarantees for images featuring lesions. Examples include but are not limited to algorithms for brain anatomy parcellation, tissue segmentation, and brain extraction. To solve this dilemma, we introduce the BraTS 2023 inpainting challenge. Here, the participants' task is to explore inpainting techniques to synthesize healthy brain scans from lesioned ones. The following manuscript contains the task formulation, dataset, and submission procedure. Later it will be updated to summarize the findings of the challenge. The challenge is organized as part of the BraTS 2023 challenge hosted at the MICCAI 2023 conference in Vancouver, Canada.

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