SPARK Academy Africa-BraTS BrainHack 2023

The Sprint AI Training for African Medical Imaging Knowledge Translation (SPARK) Academy

URL: https://event.fourwaves.com/spark/pages

Description: Description: The Sprint AI Training for African Medical Imaging Knowledge Translation (SPARK) Academy is a case-based training program designed to empower African researchers with the skills to create and implement AI tools for medical diagnostics. The first SPARK Academy will guide 70 trainees from various cities across Africa through steps to develop state-of-the-art AI methods for brain tumor segmentation and enable up to 10 teams from this cohort to participate in the MICCAI 2023 Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) Challenge. The top 3 teams from Africa will win monetary prizes (up to $5000 per team). We will offer a training facility for this hackathon and provide meals during the full-day events. All live training events are in East Africa Time (EAT).

Locations:

• Medical Artificial Intelligence (MAI) Lab, Crestview Radiology Ltd., Lagos, Nigeria
• African Centre of Excellence in Data Science (ACEDS), University of Rwanda, Kigali, RW
• Diagnostic Imaging Research Centre, University For Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana
• AI & Biomedical Imaging Lab, JiT, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia
• Division of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
• Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria*
• Muhimbili Orthopedic Institute, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• Mboalab Biotech, Yaounde, Cameroon
• Brain & Mind Institute, AKU, Nairobi, Kenya

More information can be found on our website https://event.fourwaves.com/spark/pages