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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Apologies if you receive this multiple times.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We are organizing a grand challenge on computer-aided diagnosis of dementia based on structural MRI data. We would like to invite you to participate in this challenge. The data for the challenge is now available
for download. The methods and the results of the participating teams are presented in a workshop in September 2014 at the <a href="http://miccai2014.org/" title="http://miccai2014.org/
Ctrl+Klik om de koppeling te openen">MICCAI</a> conference
in Boston.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The aim of the challenge is to compare algorithms for computer-aided diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and healthy controls based on structural MRI data. Please
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">s</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">ee the web site for more information: <a href="http://caddementia.bigr.nl/" title="http://caddementia.bigr.nl/
Ctrl+Klik om de koppeling te openen">http://caddementia.bigr.nl</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Feel free to forward this e-mail to any other people working on computer-aided diagnosis or anybody who might be interested to attend the MICCAI workshop and learn about the results.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Esther E. Bron, MSc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Stefan Klein, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Marion Smits, MD PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Prof. John C. van Swieten, MD PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Prof. Wiro J. Niessen, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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