🧠 Exciting news! The Beyond FA Grand Challenge at #MIDL2025 is here!
This challenge calls on the ML & neuroscience community to move beyond traditional FA maps and uncover deeper insights into white matter integrity in Alzheimer's Disease.
💡 Why? FA is sensitive but lacks specificity, limiting its value as a biomarker across age, cognition, and disease.
🏆 Don’t miss this opportunity: https://bfa.grand-challenge.org/
#MachineLearning #Neuroscience #MedicalImaging #GrandChallenge

#Amazon shuts down secret project to develop #fertility tracker
Amazon has discontinued its secretive "#Encore" project to develop an at-home #fertilitytracker, resulting in layoffs for around 100 employees. The project, part of Amazon's #GrandChallenge division, aimed to launch a device and app that would predict fertility through saliva testing but was ultimately terminated to control costs.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/13/amazon-shuts-down-secret-project-to-develop-fertility-tracker.html

Amazon ends its secretive at-home fertility tracker project, part of its Grand Challenge moonshot incubator. The move marks a shift in focus away from health-tech ventures. 🚫🔬 #Amazon #HealthTech #FertilityTracker #Moonshot #GrandChallenge #TechNews #Innovation

Quantitative Intravoxel Incoherent Motion (IVIM) Diffusion MRI Reconstruction (IVIM-dMRI Recon): An AAPM #GrandChallenge. AAPM is sponsoring this Challenge leading up to the 2024 AAPM Annual Meeting & Exhibition. We invite participants to develop image reconstruction and model fitting methods to improve the accuracy and robustness of quantitative parameter estimation for the widely used IVIM model of dMRI. Both deep learning (DL) and non-DL approaches are welcome.… https://aapm.me/3MR9z2x

CT Metal Artifact Reduction (CT-MAR): An AAPM #GrandChallenge. AAPM is sponsoring this Challenge leading up to the 2024 AAPM Annual Meeting & Exhibition. We will invite participants to develop a 2D metal artifact reduction (MAR) algorithm. Both deep learning (DL) and non-DL approaches are welcome. Solutions can operate in the image-domain, in the sinogram-domain.... https://aapm.me/3MdTN1e