Booz Allen & Kaggle’s Annual Data Science Competition Puts Artificial Intelligence to Work Accelerating Life-Saving Medical...
January 16 2018 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Fourth Annual Data Science Bowl to Use Machine
Intelligence to Accelerate Research for Disease Cures—Hosted in
Partnership with Broad Institute, NVIDIA, and PerkinElmer
Somewhere, buried in one of tens of millions of cell samples,
could lie the next great breakthrough in disease prevention or
cure. But, one of the great barriers to finding it could be the
need for human eyes to evaluate a corresponding mountain of cell
images, one by one. In an era when terabytes of data can be
analyzed in just a few days, the opportunity to enhance automation
of biomedical analysis could help researchers achieve breakthroughs
faster in the treatment of almost every disease—from cancer,
diabetes and rare disorders to the common cold.
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The Data Science Bowl, presented by Booz
Allen and Kaggle, brings together data scientists, technologists,
domain experts, and organizations to take on the world's challenges
with data and technology. This year, competitors will use machine
intelligence to help accelerate research for disease cures.
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To spur this automation, Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) and
Kaggle today launched the 2018 Data Science Bowl, a 90-day
competition that calls on thousands of participants globally to
train deep learning models to examine images of cells and identify
nuclei, regardless of the experimental setup—and without human
intervention. Creators of the top algorithms will split $170,000 in
cash and prizes, including an NVIDIA® DGX Station™, a personal AI
supercomputer that delivers the computing capacity of 400 CPUs in a
desktop workstation.
“This year’s Data Science Bowl will bring together thousands of
people from around the world to confront deadly diseases in one of
our most complex challenges yet,” said Ray Hensberger, a Booz Allen
Hamilton principal. “Despite some progress, it remains
time-consuming and expensive to find treatments for all types of
diseases. We believe that pairing artificial intelligence and the
collective ingenuity of the global data science community will
yield powerful tools that can help accelerate the search for
medical cures.”
Past Data Science Bowls have tackled ocean health, heart disease
and lung cancer—in which competitors trained algorithms to, among
other things, measure key indicators of heart disease in
seconds.
The 2018 Data Science Bowl At-A-Glance:
- Why does this challenge matter?
All current options for nuclei detection require time-consuming
biologist intervention. There are no deep learning models available
today that can identify nuclei across multiple experimental setups
and testing conditions. Finally, biologists often do not have the
technical expertise nor the time needed to train their own deep
learning models.
- What will participants do? The
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a non-profit biomedical and
genomics research institute, will provide Data Science Bowl
participants with data from thousands of nuclei from a wide variety
of imaging experiments. Using this data, participants will create
algorithms that can identify nuclei in any cell image, thereby
expediting the detection process and allowing biologists to
conserve time for other efforts.
- Which organizations are
involved? The competition receives sponsorship and support from
several leading health and technology organizations, including the
Broad Institute, NVIDIA, and PerkinElmer, Inc.
"We’re proud to bring together some of the world’s top minds in
a forum that harnesses data science for social good,” said Anthony
Goldbloom, CEO, Kaggle. “This year’s competition will provide our
global community with an exciting opportunity to transform
biomedical research through new open-source solutions.”
To participate in the competition, please register and download
the data set by visiting Kaggle.com. To learn more about the Data
Science Bowl, including more information about past Data Science
Bowl competitions, visit DataScienceBowl.com.
About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has been at the forefront of
strategy and technology for more than one hundred years. Today, the
firm provides management and technology consulting and engineering
services to leading Fortune 500 corporations,
governments, and not-for-profits across the globe. Booz Allen
partners with public and private sector clients to solve their most
difficult challenges through a combination of consulting,
analytics, mission operations, technology, systems delivery,
cybersecurity, engineering, and innovation expertise.
With international headquarters in McLean, Virginia, the firm
employs approximately 24,225 people globally, and had revenue of
$5.80 billion for the 12 months ended March 31, 2017. To learn
more, visit www.boozallen.com.
About Kaggle
Kaggle is the world's largest online data science competition
community. With over 1.3 million users across 194 countries, the
Kaggle community uses its diverse set of academic backgrounds to
solve complex data science problems. Working as individuals or in
teams, the winning competitors are awarded prizes and industry
recognition for their accomplishments. The top competitors are
invited to work on the most interesting and sensitive business
problems from some of the world’s biggest companies through Masters
Competitions.
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