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Second Annual Data Science Bowl

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Transforming How We Diagnose Heart

Disease
We all have a heart. Although we often take it for granted, it's our heart that gives us
the moments in life to imagine, create, and discover. Yet cardiovascular disease
threatens to take away these moments. Each day, 1,500 people in the U.S. alone are
diagnosed with heart failurebut together, we can help. We can use data science to
transform how we diagnose heart disease. By putting data science to work in the
cardiology field, we can empower doctors to help more people live longer lives and
spend more time with those that they love.
Declining cardiac function is a key indicator of heart disease. Doctors determine cardiac
function by measuring end-systolic and end-diastolic volumes (i.e., the size of one
chamber of the heart at the beginning and middle of each heartbeat), which are then
used to derive theejection fraction (EF). EF is the percentage of blood ejected from the
left ventricle with each heartbeat. Both the volumes and the ejection fraction are
predictive of heart disease. While a number of technologies can measure volumes or
EF, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is considered the gold standard test to
accurately assess the heart's squeezing ability.

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The challenge with using MRI to measure cardiac volumes and derive ejection fraction,
however, is that the process is manual and slow. A skilled cardiologist must analyze MRI
scans to determine EF. The process can take up to 20 minutes to completetime the
cardiologist could be spending with his or her patients. Making this measurement
process more efficient will enhance doctors' ability to diagnose heart conditions early,
and carries broad implications for advancing the science of heart disease treatment.
The 2015 Data Science Bowl challenges you to create an algorithm to automatically
measure end-systolic and end-diastolic volumes in cardiac MRIs. You will examine MRI
images from more than 1,000 patients. This data set was compiled by the National
Institutes of Health and Children's National Medical Center and is an order of
magnitude larger than any cardiac MRI data set released previously. With it comes the
opportunity for the data science community to take action to transform how we
diagnose heart disease.
This is not an easy task, but together we can push the limits of what's possible. We can
give people the opportunity to spend more time with the ones they love, for longer
than ever before.

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The Data Science Bowl is presented by:

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The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) provided the MRI images for this
competition. Special thanks to NHLBI Intramural Investigators Dr. Michael Hansen and
Dr. Andrew Arai.
Additional support for the Data Science Bowl was provided by NVIDIA:

Started: 2:00 pm, Monday 14 December 2015 UTC

Ends: 11:59 pm, Monday 14 March 2016 UTC (91 total days)
Points: this competition awards standard ranking points
Tiers: this competition counts towards tiers

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