terran lane bidftbcsunmedu kdd cup 2006 chair terran lane university new mexico years kdd cup challenge problem drawn domain medical data mining tasks series computeraided detection problems revolving around clinical problem identifying pulmonary embolisms threedimensional computed tomography data challenging domain characterized multiple instance learning noniid examples nonlinear cost functions skewed class distributions noisy class labels sparse data information including task descriptions registration data please go httpwwwcsunmedukdd_cup_2006 timeline may 15 release kdd cup specification v 10 availability training data july 10 submission mechanism open july 17 end results submission phase aug 1 results announced aug 2326 kdd many thanks siemens medical solutions providing cad data sets task specifications data expertise terran lane sdsrpyhdwhxcsunmedu wwwhttpwwwcsunmeduterran gpg keyhttpwwwcsunmeduterrangpg_pub_keyshtml dont want go among mad people alice remarked oh cant help said cat mad im mad youre mad know im mad said alice must said cat wouldnt come wed 06 aug 2008 230927 0600 uai announcement 2006 kdd cup