[UAI] announcement: 2006 KDD Cup KDD Cup 2006
Chair: Terran Lane (University of New Mexico)

This year's KDD Cup challenge problem is drawn from the domain of
medical data mining.  The tasks are a series of Computer-Aided
Detection problems revolving around the clinical problem of
identifying pulmonary embolisms from three-dimensional computed
tomography data.  This challenging domain is characterized by:

   * Multiple instance learning
   * Non-IID examples
   * Nonlinear cost functions
   * Skewed class distributions
   * Noisy class labels
   * Sparse data

For more information, including task descriptions, registration and
data, please go to:
	http://www.cs.unm.edu/kdd_cup_2006

Timeline:
	May 15: Release of KDD Cup Specification v. 1.0; availability
		of training data.
	July 10: Submission mechanism open.
	July 17: End of results submission phase.
	Aug 1: Results announced.
	Aug 23-26: KDD	

Many thanks to Siemens Medical Solutions for providing the CAD data
sets, task specifications, and data expertise.

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