Rules¶

• The dataset can only be used for this challenge.
• Prizes are available for the best teams as described in the challenge section in the conference website: Ethics and Explainability for Responsible Data Science (EE-RDS).   
• The evaluation will based on : Accuracy (1st criterion), Sensitivity (2nd criterion) and Specificity (3rd criterion)
• The use of pretrained weights is only permitted if the weights are not from other CXR COVID-19 datasets or Chest X-Ray datasets (Pneumonia,  Normal, etc.) (e.g. The use of ImageNet pretraining is permitted).
• The online test submission will be up until 12pm (noon) Eastern Time October 10 October 13, 2021. 
• You need to submit your results in the 'Test Set Leaderboard' if you want your publication in IEEExplore and/or the planned journal submission.