Competition
Detecting Tuberculosis in X-Rays
Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading infectious disease affecting the lungs. Clinicians often use chest X-rays to support diagnosis, but reviewing many images manually is time-consuming and challenging. In this competition, you’ll build a simple classifier to distinguish between healthy lungs and lungs affected by TB, focusing on your process, decisions, and learnings rather than perfection.
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- Preprocessing: What steps did you take to prepare the images? (e.g., resizing, grayscale, normalization, small rotations)
- Modeling: Try at least two models and compare them (for example, a small CNN and a pre-trained model like ResNet or MobileNet)
- Evaluation: Report Sensitivity, Specificity, PPV, and NPV in plain words and explain what they mean
- [Optional] ROC Curve: Visualize model performance across thresholds
How to get started
Create your most insightful analysis using DataLab, our in-browser tool to write, run, and publish data analyses. Once you’ve finished your work, you’ll need to publish it for review.
Judging criteria
This competition will not be judged. Use this opportunity to apply your conceptual and machine learning skills, and compare your work with your peers after the competition ends! Once the competition concludes, you'll have the opportunity to view and vote for the best submissions.
Rules
- Entries to the competition take the form of a workbook publication. Make sure the competition publication is publicly visible in order to be entered into the competition.
- Your publication should be focused on data provided within the competition.
- The competition is open and free to registered DataCamp users.
- Only one entry per user. You may update your entry up to the deadline.
- Make sure your competition workbook is published by the competition deadline in order for it to be valid.
- You can check the time left to submit on the counter at the top of this page.
Note: Please make sure you're 18+ years old and are allowed to take part in a skill-based competition from your country.
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You will create a data analysis based on the dataset provided. You will submit your ready-to-share notebook publication for a review by fellow DataCamp learners and the judging panel in accordance with the evaluation metrics created for the competition.
How long does a competition run?
The detailed information on the competition timeline can be found on the competition’s homepage. Most DataCamp Competitions include two deadlines: a submission deadline (after which no new submissions will be accepted), and a voting deadline (after which no new votes be counted towards final evaluation). It is very, very important to keep these deadlines in mind.
What makes a winning solution?
The winners will be selected based on the judging criteria provided in the description of each competition.
How will I get my prize? Are there any conditions?
We will contact each winner separately to agree on the best way to deliver the prize. The winners are responsible for any fees or taxes liable in your home country upon receiving the funds. Any relevant conditions will be stated in the Competition Rules and Terms of Use.
Are teams allowed?
Not yet, but we are exploring this opportunity for future competitions.