The number of international benchmarking competitions is steadily increasing in various fields of machine learning (ML) research and practice. So far, however, little is known about the common practice as well as bottlenecks faced by the community in tackling the research questions posed. To shed light on the status quo of algorithm development in the specific field of biomedical imaging analysis, we designed an international survey that was issued to all participants of challenges conducted in conjunction with the IEEE ISBI 2021 and MICCAI 2021 conferences (80 competitions in total). The survey covered participants' expertise and working environments, their chosen strategies, as well as algorithm characteristics. A median of 72% challenge participants took part in the survey. According to our results, knowledge exchange was the primary incentive (70%) for participation, while the reception of prize money played only a minor role (16%). While a median of 80 working hours was spent on method development, a large portion of participants stated that they did not have enough time for method development (32%). 25% perceived the infrastructure to be a bottleneck. Overall, 94% of all solutions were deep learning-based. Of these, 84% were based on standard architectures. 43% of the respondents reported that the data samples (e.g., images) were too large to be processed at once. This was most commonly addressed by patch-based training (69%), downsampling (37%), and solving 3D analysis tasks as a series of 2D tasks. K-fold cross-validation on the training set was performed by only 37% of the participants and only 50% of the participants performed ensembling based on multiple identical models (61%) or heterogeneous models (39%). 48% of the respondents applied postprocessing steps.

Deep learning has achieved notable success in 3D object detection with the advent of large-scale point cloud datasets. However, severe performance degradation in the past trained classes, i.e., catastrophic forgetting, still remains a critical issue for real-world deployment when the number of classes is unknown or may vary. Moreover, existing 3D class-incremental detection methods are developed for the single-domain scenario, which fail when encountering domain shift caused by different datasets, varying environments, etc. In this paper, we identify the unexplored yet valuable scenario, i.e., class-incremental learning under domain shift, and propose a novel 3D domain adaptive class-incremental object detection framework, DA-CIL, in which we design a novel dual-domain copy-paste augmentation method to construct multiple augmented domains for diversifying training distributions, thereby facilitating gradual domain adaptation. Then, multi-level consistency is explored to facilitate dual-teacher knowledge distillation from different domains for domain adaptive class-incremental learning. Extensive experiments on various datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method over baselines in the domain adaptive class-incremental learning scenario.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having a tremendous impact across most areas of science. Applications of AI in healthcare have the potential to improve our ability to detect, diagnose, prognose, and intervene on human disease. For AI models to be used clinically, they need to be made safe, reproducible and robust, and the underlying software framework must be aware of the particularities (e.g. geometry, physiology, physics) of medical data being processed. This work introduces MONAI, a freely available, community-supported, and consortium-led PyTorch-based framework for deep learning in healthcare. MONAI extends PyTorch to support medical data, with a particular focus on imaging, and provide purpose-specific AI model architectures, transformations and utilities that streamline the development and deployment of medical AI models. MONAI follows best practices for software-development, providing an easy-to-use, robust, well-documented, and well-tested software framework. MONAI preserves the simple, additive, and compositional approach of its underlying PyTorch libraries. MONAI is being used by and receiving contributions from research, clinical and industrial teams from around the world, who are pursuing applications spanning nearly every aspect of healthcare.

In recent years, Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) has achieved widespread adoption within the game community. Its use in conjunction with deep reinforcement learning has produced success stories in many applications. While these approaches have been implemented in various games, from simple board games to more complicated video games such as StarCraft, the use of deep neural networks requires a substantial training period. In this work, we explore on-line adaptivity in MCTS without requiring pre-training. We present MCTS-TD, an adaptive MCTS algorithm improved with temporal difference learning. We demonstrate our new approach on the game miniXCOM, a simplified version of XCOM, a popular commercial franchise consisting of several turn-based tactical games, and show how adaptivity in MCTS-TD allows for improved performances against opponents.

本文研究了体育视频上自动化机器描述的建模，最近取得了很多进展。尽管如此，最新的方法还没有捕捉人类专家如何分析体育场景。有几个主要原因：（1）使用的数据集是从非官方提供商那里收集的，该数据集自然会在这些数据集和现实世界应用程序训练的模型之间造成差距； （2）先前提出的方法需要广泛的注释工作（即，像素级别的玩家和球分割）在本地化有用的视觉特征上以产生可接受的结果； （3）很少有公共数据集可用。在本文中，我们提出了一个新颖的大型NBA数据集，用于体育视频分析（NSVA），重点是字幕，以应对上述挑战。我们还设计了一种统一的方法，将原始视频处理成一堆有意义的功能，并以最小的标签工作进行了处理，这表明使用变压器体系结构对此类功能进行交叉建模会导致强大的性能。此外，我们通过解决了另外两个任务，即精细的运动动作识别和显着的球员识别，证明了NSVA的广泛应用。代码和数据集可在https://github.com/jackwu502/nsva上找到。

基于变压器的自我监督表示方法学习方法从未标记的数据集中学习通用功能，以提供有用的网络初始化参数，用于下游任务。最近，基于掩盖3D点云数据的局部表面斑块的自我监督学习的探索还不足。在本文中，我们提出了3D点云表示学习中的蒙版自动编码器（缩写为MAE3D），这是一种新颖的自动编码范式，用于自我监督学习。我们首先将输入点云拆分为补丁，然后掩盖其中的一部分，然后使用我们的补丁嵌入模块提取未掩盖的补丁的功能。其次，我们采用贴片的MAE3D变形金刚学习点云补丁的本地功能以及补丁之间的高级上下文关系，并完成蒙版补丁的潜在表示。我们将点云重建模块与多任务损失一起完成，从而完成不完整的点云。我们在Shapenet55上进行了自我监督的预训练，并使用点云完成前文本任务，并在ModelNet40和ScanObjectnn（PB \ _t50 \ _RS，最难的变体）上微调预训练的模型。全面的实验表明，我们的MAE3D从Point Cloud补丁提取的本地功能对下游分类任务有益，表现优于最先进的方法（$ 93.4 \％\％\％\％$和$ 86.2 \％$ $分类精度）。

语言模型既展示了定量的改进，又展示了新的定性功能，随着规模的增加。尽管它们具有潜在的变革性影响，但这些新能力的特征却很差。为了为未来的研究提供信息，为破坏性的新模型能力做准备，并改善社会有害的效果，至关重要的是，我们必须了解目前和近乎未来的能力和语言模型的局限性。为了应对这一挑战，我们介绍了超越模仿游戏基准（Big Bench）。 Big Bench目前由204个任务组成，由132家机构的442位作者贡献。任务主题是多样的，从语言学，儿童发展，数学，常识性推理，生物学，物理学，社会偏见，软件开发等等。 Big-Bench专注于被认为超出当前语言模型的功能的任务。我们评估了OpenAI的GPT型号，Google内部密集变压器体系结构和大型基础上的开关稀疏变压器的行为，跨越了数百万到数十亿个参数。此外，一个人类专家评估者团队执行了所有任务，以提供强大的基准。研究结果包括：模型性能和校准都随规模改善，但绝对的术语（以及与评估者的性能相比）；在模型类中的性能非常相似，尽管带有稀疏性。逐渐和预测的任务通常涉及大量知识或记忆成分，而在临界规模上表现出“突破性”行为的任务通常涉及多个步骤或组成部分或脆性指标；社交偏见通常会随着含糊不清的环境而随着规模而增加，但这可以通过提示来改善。

动作识别是人工智能的激动人心的研究途径，因为它可能是新兴工业领域（例如机器人视觉和汽车）的游戏规则。但是，由于巨大的计算成本和效率低下的学习，当前的深度学习面临着此类应用的主要挑战。因此，我们开发了一种新型的基于脑启发的尖峰神经网络（SNN）的系统，标题为用于在线动作学习的尖峰门控流（SGF）。开发的系统由多个以分层方式组装的SGF单元组成。单个SGF单元涉及三层：特征提取层，事件驱动的层和基于直方图的训练层。为了展示开发的系统功能，我们采用标准的动态视觉传感器（DVS）手势分类作为基准。结果表明，我们可以达到87.5％的精度，这与深度学习（DL）相当，但在较小的培训/推理数据编号比率为1.5：1。在学习过程中，只需要一个单个培训时代。同时，据我们所知，这是基于非回复算法的SNN中最高准确性。最后，我们结论了开发网络的几乎没有的学习范式：1）基于层次结构的网络设计涉及人类的先验知识； 2）用于基于内容的全局动态特征检测的SNN。

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning setting where many clients (e.g. mobile devices or whole organizations) collaboratively train a model under the orchestration of a central server (e.g. service provider), while keeping the training data decentralized. FL embodies the principles of focused data collection and minimization, and can mitigate many of the systemic privacy risks and costs resulting from traditional, centralized machine learning and data science approaches. Motivated by the explosive growth in FL research, this paper discusses recent advances and presents an extensive collection of open problems and challenges.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become commonplace to solve routine everyday tasks. Because of the exponential growth in medical imaging data volume and complexity, the workload on radiologists is steadily increasing. We project that the gap between the number of imaging exams and the number of expert radiologist readers required to cover this increase will continue to expand, consequently introducing a demand for AI-based tools that improve the efficiency with which radiologists can comfortably interpret these exams. AI has been shown to improve efficiency in medical-image generation, processing, and interpretation, and a variety of such AI models have been developed across research labs worldwide. However, very few of these, if any, find their way into routine clinical use, a discrepancy that reflects the divide between AI research and successful AI translation. To address the barrier to clinical deployment, we have formed MONAI Consortium, an open-source community which is building standards for AI deployment in healthcare institutions, and developing tools and infrastructure to facilitate their implementation. This report represents several years of weekly discussions and hands-on problem solving experience by groups of industry experts and clinicians in the MONAI Consortium. We identify barriers between AI-model development in research labs and subsequent clinical deployment and propose solutions. Our report provides guidance on processes which take an imaging AI model from development to clinical implementation in a healthcare institution. We discuss various AI integration points in a clinical Radiology workflow. We also present a taxonomy of Radiology AI use-cases. Through this report, we intend to educate the stakeholders in healthcare and AI (AI researchers, radiologists, imaging informaticists, and regulators) about cross-disciplinary challenges and possible solutions.