> i wonder if the average professional coder, still has. chance to beat the big teams ? I attended the MICCAI workshops this year, and while I didn't go to the

> i wonder if the average professional coder, still has. chance to beat the big teams ? I attended the MICCAI workshops this year, and while I didn't go to the brain segmentation challenge, in the ones I did go to the winners were generally academic individuals or groups. My MICCAI login is on my work computer, so I'm not going to go and check right now, but a quick google shows that the winners of FeTS2021 were all academics: https://twitter.com/FeTS_Challenge/status/1444010949371994114/photo/1 https://twitter.com/FeTS_Challenge/status/144401094937199411... and HEKTOR2021: https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/miccai-2021-hecktor/leaderboards?challenge_leaderboard_extra_id=667&challenge_round_id=879 https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/miccai-2021-hecktor/leade... looks similar. EDIT: Academic groups are of course not the same as 'the average professional coder', but this is a fast-moving research field and if an individual is competing with the state-of-the-art that doesn't sound particularly 'average' to me. EDIT 2: The DiSCO challenge appears to have been dominated by academics, both individuals and small teams : https://twitter.com/GabrielPGirard/status/1443972878714773560 https://twitter.com/GabrielPGirard/status/144397287871477356...