We have just announced the launch of an SPIE image analysis grand challenge, BreastPathQ. We are asking the image analysis community to develop methods to automatically perform tumor burden assessment in breast digital pathology slides. Full details of the BreastPathQ challenge can be found on the website:
http://spiechallenges.cloudapp.net/competitions/14
The training set has been released and is ready to be downloaded. All members of the computer science, medical image analysis and pathology community are invited to submit their solutions.