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KDD Cup 2008: Early detection of breast cancer

The KDD Cup 2008 challenge focuses on the problem of early detection of breast cancer from X-ray images of the breast. In a screening population, a small fraction of cancerous patients have more than one malignant lesion. To simplify the problem, we only consider one type of cancer – cancerous masses – and only include cancer patients with at most one cancerous mass per patient. The challenge will consist of two parts, each of which is related to the development of algorithms for Computer Aided Detection (CAD) of early stage breast cancer from X-ray images.

This web site will provide data for the challenges. Relevant background information about CAD for breast cancer can be found here. A description of the training and validation data and the supporting ROC software can be found here. Some machine learning hints relevant to the problem are described here. The KDD Cup 2008 challenges are listed here formally. The important dates are listed over here.

NOTE: The data and the supporting evaluation software can be downloaded starting on Apr 3, 2008 from this web site after registration.

April 1	Web site up. Registration opens
April 3	Training data and evaluation code available after login
June 2	Test data available for download after login
June 20	Registration for KDD Cup closes
July 1 July 7	Last date for submission of results on test set
July 15	Notification of KDD Cup competition results
July 31	Winners submit camera ready papers to the associated workshop on mining medical data.
August 24-27	Winners present their work at the workshop.