KDD Cup 2006: UNM Computer Science

KDD Cup 2006

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Chair: Terran Lane (University of New Mexico)

Victors

For each task, we identified a winning team and one or more runners-up teams. Each task also had a "best student entry" prize, awarded to the best-performing student-led team.

Task 1: PE Identification

The winners in Task 1 were:

First Place: Robert Bell, Patrick Haffner, and Chris Volinsky (AT&T Research).
First Runner Up: Dmitriy Fradkin (Ask.com).
Second Runner Up: Domonkos Tikk (Budapest University of Technology & Economics), Zsolt T. Kardkovács (Budapest University of Technology & Economics), Ferenc P. Szidarovszky (Szidarovszky Ltd. and Budapest University of Technology & Economics), György Biró (TextMiner Ltd.), and Zoltán Bálint (Budapest University of Technology & Economics).
Best Student Entry: Karthik Kumara (team leader), Sourangshu Bhattacharya, Mehul Parsana, Shivramkrishnan K, Rashmin Babaria, Saketha Nath J, and Chiranjib Bhattacharyya (Indian Institute of Science).

Task 2: Patient Classification

The winners in Task 2 were:

First Place: Domonkos Tikk (Budapest University of Technology & Economics), Zsolt T. Kardkovács (Budapest University of Technology & Economics), Ferenc P. Szidarovszky (Szidarovszky Ltd. and Budapest University of Technology & Economics), György Biró (TextMiner Ltd.), and Zoltán Bálint (Budapest University of Technology & Economics).
First Runner Up: Ruiping Wang, Yu Su, Ting Liu, Fei Yang, Liangguo Zhang, Dong Zhang, Shiguang Shan, Weiqiang Wang, Ruixiang Sun, and Wen Gao (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences).
Second Runner Up: Cas Zhang, Y. Zhou, Q. Wang, and H. Ge (Joint R&D Lab, Chinese Academy of Sciences).
Third Runner Up: Dmitriy Fradkin (Ask.com).
Best Student Entry: Zhang Cas (IA, PKU).

Task 3: Negative Predictive Value

The winners in Task 3 were:

First Place: William Perrizo and Amal Shehan Perera (DataSURG Group, North Dakota State University)
Runner Up: Nimisha Gupta and Tarun Agarwal (Strand Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd.)
Best Student Entry: Karthik Kumara (team leader), Sourangshu Bhattacharya, Mehul Parsana, Shivramkrishnan K, Rashmin Babaria, Saketha Nath J, and Chiranjib Bhattacharyya (Indian Institute of Science).

KDD Cup Raw Results

Results are listed using the Download ID for privacy.

About This Year's Challenge

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

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

Rules, FAQs, etc

KDD Cup 2006 Rules
KDD Cup 2006 Submission Rules
KDD Cup 2006 FAQ
Final version of data description, task specification, and rules (v. 1.1) (PDF format, 303 KB)
Initial data description, task specification, and rules (v. 1.0)(PDF format, 211 KB)
Gzipped tarball including scoring scripts, test data, raw results, Final PDF rules file, bootstrap vectors,etc. (3.37 Meg)

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