Communications

The AMPLIFAI challenge will hold its in-person satellite event session at MICCAI 2026 in Strasbourg, France. Full details are on the Timeline page.

• Date: Thursday, October 1, 2026
• Time: 8:00–10:00 (Strasbourg local time)
• Location: Amsterdam room (Ground floor), Strasbourg Convention Center

The two-hour session will include:

• Introduction and challenge overview
• Keynote / featured talks by Dr. Florence X. Doo and Pranav Kulkarni
• Q&A
• Winner talks (top 3 teams)
• Best proceedings paper talk
• Poster presentations
• Closing and awards

See the MICCAI 2026 Satellite Events tentative schedule (PDF) for the official MICCAI program.

View full session program

The AMPLIFAI organizing team

Kindly take note of the following clarifications for teams submitting to the optional Springer LNCS proceedings track. Full details are on the Papers page.

The AMPLIFAI dataset preprint is now available on arXiv. We have provided its citation for your reference on the Papers page.

• Submit proceedings manuscripts to the AMPLIFAI Challenge on OpenReview. The deadline is August 17, 2026, 11:59 PM EST.
• Some registered teams have not yet made a submission to the AMPLIFAI Challenge Test Phase. Please ensure that you have submitted to the test phase and added your submission to the leaderboard before August 22, 2026.
• Your submitted proceedings paper must primarily describe the method used in your team’s current active submission on the leaderboard.
• The top three teams at the conclusion of the competition (September 15, 2026) will be invited as co-authors with the organizers on a separate AMPLIFAI challenge paper, where they describe their winning approach to the challenge.
• The proceedings track is for presentation at the MICCAI 2026 Satellite Event. All accepted papers will be presented at the Satellite Event as an in-person oral or poster presentation.

OpenReview submission instructions Proceedings requirements

The AMPLIFAI organizing team

Publication requirements are now on the Papers page. Every participating team should read them.

Go to the Papers page

Required: Public Method Overview

Every team must submit a Public Method Overview for the method used in its final official challenge submission. This is required for challenge-award eligibility.

• Deadline: September 15, 2026
• Submit after your final official challenge submission
• Include the submission ID and submission date
• Compliant Method Overviews will be posted under CC BY 4.0

Submit the Public Method Overview

Optional: Springer LNCS proceedings

Teams may also submit a short paper for the MICCAI 2026 Satellite Event Springer LNCS proceedings. This is optional. It does not replace the Public Method Overview.

Proceedings dates:

• August 10, 2026: Intent-to-Submit form due
• August 17, 2026, 11:59 PM EST: Initial manuscript due via OpenReview
• August 22, 2026: Review decisions and revision requests
• August 25, 2026: Final camera-ready package due

Review is single-blind. Proceedings acceptance does not depend on final challenge leaderboard performance.

OpenReview submission instructions Proceedings Intent-to-Submit form

Author resources

On the Papers page you can also find:

• Springer LNCS templates and author instructions
• The Springer Nature licence-to-publish form for accepted papers
• The camera-ready metadata form for accepted proceedings authors

Updated timeline

The challenge timeline now includes proceedings milestones and the Public Method Overview deadline.

Email amplifai@som.umaryland.edu with questions about publication requirements or proceedings submissions.

The AMPLIFAI organizing team

Model submission for the evaluation phase will open today, July 31, at 8:00 pm EST on Codabench.

• The test set has 174 private cases.
• The validation phase is now closed.
• The same submission format used for validation will apply for evaluation-phase submissions, as outlined in the submission sample.

The AMPLIFAI organizing team

If you have made a submission on Codabench, your model evaluation may show a “Pending” status. Please rest assured that does not imply an issue with your submission, but rather due to delays in our data annotation process for the test set.

We understand how crucial timely evaluations are important for your model development. We sincerely apologize for this disruption.

To help you keep moving forward, we will be opening a validation phase on Codabench on July 17th. This phase will evaluate your submissions on the 59 validation cases from the released dataset, with a limit of 5 submissions per team. These “provisional” results will not be included in the final leaderboard, only the validation leaderboard. Also, it will not count towards your five submission limit for the test set.

We expect to begin the testing phase on July 31st. We will reach out via another email when they transition to the testing phase.

Thank you for your patience and continued participation in the AMPLIFAI challenge!

The AMPLIFAI organizing team

The AMPLIFAI training dataset on Hugging Face has been updated. If you have already downloaded the data, please download the latest version so you are working with the most current training cases and annotations.

Download the latest release on Hugging Face (UM-IHC-CA2i/AMPLIFAI). On the dataset page, use the repository files or revision history to confirm you have the newest version before training or resuming experiments.

For more information about the dataset, see the Data page on this site.

If you run into access or download issues, email amplifai@som.umaryland.edu.

The AMPLIFAI organizing team