# VisioMel Challenge **URL:** https://community.drivendata.org/c/visiomel-melanoma/93.md [Latest](https://community.drivendata.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.drivendata.org/categories.md) --- ## [About the VisioMel Challenge category](https://community.drivendata.org/t/about-the-visiomel-challenge-category/8732)
**Author:** [@ishashah](https://community.drivendata.org/u/ishashah)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2024, 11:29am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/about-the-visiomel-challenge-category/8732 "2024-04-08T11:29:35Z")
This category is for posts about the VisioMel Challenge: Predicting Melanoma Relapse competition. Please keep all posts here specific to the competition. To start a new thread, click the \[+ New Topic\] button and make su… --- ## [The competition data are publicly available!](https://community.drivendata.org/t/the-competition-data-are-publicly-available/11294)
**Author:** [@hannahmoro](https://community.drivendata.org/u/hannahmoro)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/the-competition-data-are-publicly-available/11294 "2025-11-06T17:27:55Z")
Good news! The project team from this competition has made the VisioMel challenge data available for ongoing use, practice and learning! More information and a link to the data can be found on a new open data competition… --- ## [Data use for proof of concept](https://community.drivendata.org/t/data-use-for-proof-of-concept/8931)
**Author:** [@nZhangx](https://community.drivendata.org/u/nZhangx)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/data-use-for-proof-of-concept/8931 "2025-09-26T22:17:11Z")
Can we use the data to test a proof of concept for a publication? The data or model weights won’t be shared, only the performance. --- ## [Regarding Release of Public dataset and winning solutions](https://community.drivendata.org/t/regarding-release-of-public-dataset-and-winning-solutions/9000)
**Author:** [@Mahadev](https://community.drivendata.org/u/Mahadev)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2025, 10:16pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/regarding-release-of-public-dataset-and-winning-solutions/9000 "2025-09-26T22:16:25Z")
Hello all, Thank you you for organising a nice competition. As a student I got to learn a lot during the competition. If you could clarify an expected data of release for the public dataset and winning solutions, that … --- ## [Suggestion for including additional metrics for final leaderboard submissions](https://community.drivendata.org/t/suggestion-for-including-additional-metrics-for-final-leaderboard-submissions/8969)
**Author:** [@deepmed](https://community.drivendata.org/u/deepmed)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2023, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/suggestion-for-including-additional-metrics-for-final-leaderboard-submissions/8969 "2023-05-15T18:58:03Z")
Hello all, Congrats to the organisers for putting out and administering the contest and congrats to all the participants for their submissions! With respect to the final leaderboard entries, I think it would be very in… --- ## [Inappropriate evaluation metric](https://community.drivendata.org/t/inappropriate-evaluation-metric/8950)
**Author:** [@zsolt.bedohazi](https://community.drivendata.org/u/zsolt.bedohazi)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2023, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/inappropriate-evaluation-metric/8950 "2023-05-11T15:51:04Z")
Dear Organizers, I am delighted to have the opportunity to participate in this competition, and I extend my sincere appreciation to you for organizing such a significant challenge. However, I would like to bring to you… --- ## [Sharing CV scores and LB scores](https://community.drivendata.org/t/sharing-cv-scores-and-lb-scores/8912)
**Author:** [@Optimo](https://community.drivendata.org/u/Optimo)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2023, 10:15am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/sharing-cv-scores-and-lb-scores/8912 "2023-05-11T10:15:58Z")
Hi everyone, I wanted to make this thread so that contenders can share their CV vs LB scores. In fact I have seen a very poor correlation between CV and LB so I wondered if the same happened to you. Here are a few exa… --- ## [Addressing log loss metric and submission rule](https://community.drivendata.org/t/addressing-log-loss-metric-and-submission-rule/8961)
**Author:** [@zsolt.bedohazi](https://community.drivendata.org/u/zsolt.bedohazi)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2023, 9:50am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/addressing-log-loss-metric-and-submission-rule/8961 "2023-05-11T09:50:43Z")
Dear everyone! The current rules and evaluation methods unfortunately do not allow equal and fair competition for all competitors. Firstly, only the best performing model from the public leaderboard should be selected … --- ## [3 submissions per week rule](https://community.drivendata.org/t/3-submissions-per-week-rule/8947)
**Author:** [@zsolt.bedohazi](https://community.drivendata.org/u/zsolt.bedohazi)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/3-submissions-per-week-rule/8947 "2023-05-08T14:04:53Z")
Hi, If I made a submission on 7th of May, does this mean I have 2 submissions left until 11th of May, since I made my first submission in the last 7 days of the contest? Or maybe the 7 day period was reset at the end o… --- ## [Smoke test hardware vs. normal run hardware](https://community.drivendata.org/t/smoke-test-hardware-vs-normal-run-hardware/8944)
**Author:** [@zsolt.bedohazi](https://community.drivendata.org/u/zsolt.bedohazi)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2023, 3:42am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/smoke-test-hardware-vs-normal-run-hardware/8944 "2023-05-08T03:42:36Z")
Hi, I would like to get a a sense of how much time does my inference take during the “normal” submission. For this, I would like to ask if the hardware spec. (GPU, CPU, nr. of cores, load of the VM etc.) of a smoke tes… --- ## [RuntimeError: cuDNN error: CUDNN\_STATUS\_ARCH\_MISMATCH](https://community.drivendata.org/t/runtimeerror-cudnn-error-cudnn-status-arch-mismatch/8936)
**Author:** [@BryanB](https://community.drivendata.org/u/BryanB)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 7, 2023, 3:22am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/runtimeerror-cudnn-error-cudnn-status-arch-mismatch/8936 "2023-05-07T03:22:24Z")
Hello, I recently submitted my code, which had been thoroughly tested and was working locally on a GPU. However, upon running a smoke test, I encountered an error: RuntimeError: cuDNN error: CUDNN\_STATUS\_ARCH\_MISMATCH. … --- ## [No logs to report errors](https://community.drivendata.org/t/no-logs-to-report-errors/8892)
**Author:** [@Biototem](https://community.drivendata.org/u/Biototem)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 5, 2023, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/no-logs-to-report-errors/8892 "2023-05-05T12:58:09Z")
Our submission consistently fails on a specific image, but the log does not provide any error information, leaving us with no clues for debugging. Additionally, we are not permitted to print any information about the pro… --- ## [Number of cases](https://community.drivendata.org/t/number-of-cases/8767)
**Author:** [@ali.mammadov](https://community.drivendata.org/u/ali.mammadov)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/number-of-cases/8767 "2023-05-04T19:19:47Z")
Could you please specify the number of test cases for being able to predict inference time and be able to fit it to 8 hours(rule given by authors)? --- ## [Submission in "starting" status for quite long](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submission-in-starting-status-for-quite-long/8923)
**Author:** [@rajparmar](https://community.drivendata.org/u/rajparmar)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submission-in-starting-status-for-quite-long/8923 "2023-05-04T15:08:26Z")
My submission is in “starting” status from at least a few hours. This can be caused from cloud provider’s side as mentioned in the other thread. Just wanted to make sure that it does not go unnoticed and all the submiss… --- ## [Submission pending time too long](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submission-pending-time-too-long/8921)
**Author:** [@Biototem](https://community.drivendata.org/u/Biototem)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2023, 10:59pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submission-pending-time-too-long/8921 "2023-05-03T22:59:43Z")
Our recent submission has been pending for more than 8 hours when where was only one 1 submission ahead of us in the queue at the time of submission. Is this normal? Thanks. --- ## [Possible for organizers to increase submit compute resources?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/possible-for-organizers-to-increase-submit-compute-resources/8925)
**Author:** [@johntiger1](https://community.drivendata.org/u/johntiger1)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2023, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/possible-for-organizers-to-increase-submit-compute-resources/8925 "2023-05-03T22:51:44Z")
Currently my submission is stuck on pending (12 submissions ahead) for 30+ mins. Any way we can get more compute resources for submission near the deadline? --- ## [Pull request still not reviewed](https://community.drivendata.org/t/pull-request-still-not-reviewed/8920)
**Author:** [@alir\_hay](https://community.drivendata.org/u/alir_hay)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2023, 12:24am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/pull-request-still-not-reviewed/8920 "2023-05-03T00:24:03Z")
Hi, would it be possible to accept my pull request on the repo? I’m waiting on that to make a submission. Thank you. --- ## [Read and/or save image difficulties](https://community.drivendata.org/t/read-and-or-save-image-difficulties/8917)
**Author:** [@JohnDS](https://community.drivendata.org/u/JohnDS)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2023, 12:17am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/read-and-or-save-image-difficulties/8917 "2023-05-03T00:17:52Z")
Hi Organizers and other competitors, We have a lot of difficulties finally to read all images to run our model our get and save all images locally on the environnement we use for the challenge (so this is quiet a big ch… --- ## [Runtime environment storage](https://community.drivendata.org/t/runtime-environment-storage/8915)
**Author:** [@zsolt.bedohazi](https://community.drivendata.org/u/zsolt.bedohazi)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 1, 2023, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/runtime-environment-storage/8915 "2023-05-01T18:22:08Z")
Hi, Could you please give some further information about the runtime environment, regarding the following questions: On what kind of storage is the test data stored on? (ssd or hdd) Is it possible to write intermediat… --- ## [Submission queue deadline](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submission-queue-deadline/8908)
**Author:** [@gbrought](https://community.drivendata.org/u/gbrought)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 1, 2023, 6:10pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submission-queue-deadline/8908 "2023-05-01T18:10:54Z")
Hello, Seeing as submissions are taking quite a while in the queue and will only take longer the closer we get to the deadline as more people frantically try and get a better score, will submissions still be included if… --- ## [Submission Time](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submission-time/8907)
**Author:** [@ali.mammadov](https://community.drivendata.org/u/ali.mammadov)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submission-time/8907 "2023-04-28T17:51:24Z")
Hello Organizers, Hope you are doing well. My submission takes more than 8 hours. Could you please help me to increase the time to 12 hours? Best regards, --- ## [Private Testset](https://community.drivendata.org/t/private-testset/8906)
**Author:** [@arvinyw](https://community.drivendata.org/u/arvinyw)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2023, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/private-testset/8906 "2023-04-28T17:48:26Z")
Hi organizers, I would like to ask how would the private best result be selected, is it the best result on public test set or there will be additional computations on private set and select the best among all submissions… --- ## [Error in importing transformers](https://community.drivendata.org/t/error-in-importing-transformers/8897)
**Author:** [@adityakumarsinha](https://community.drivendata.org/u/adityakumarsinha)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2023, 8:53pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/error-in-importing-transformers/8897 "2023-04-26T20:53:32Z")
Hi Smoke test runtime gives following error when importing transformers package. Earlier it was working. ImportError: cannot import name ‘CommitOperationAdd’ from ‘huggingface\_hub’ (/opt/conda/envs/condaenv/lib/python3… --- ## [Unable to locate credentials](https://community.drivendata.org/t/unable-to-locate-credentials/8896)
**Author:** [@lucasfreire](https://community.drivendata.org/u/lucasfreire)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/unable-to-locate-credentials/8896 "2023-04-26T14:29:53Z")
I’m using The code example to help me start the project but I have that problem saying up I don’t know why I have this problem because These files is public I will let here the website of the code example and the link to… --- ## [Can't import cv2 when running make test-submission](https://community.drivendata.org/t/cant-import-cv2-when-running-make-test-submission/8876)
**Author:** [@BryanB](https://community.drivendata.org/u/BryanB)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/cant-import-cv2-when-running-make-test-submission/8876 "2023-04-24T22:58:32Z")
When i run make test-submission locally, I get this error echo ‘Running code submission with Python’ Running code submission with Python conda run --no-capture-output -n condaenv python main.py Traceback (most recen… --- ## [Slide spacing at level 0](https://community.drivendata.org/t/slide-spacing-at-level-0/8776)
**Author:** [@waticlems](https://community.drivendata.org/u/waticlems)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/slide-spacing-at-level-0/8776 "2023-04-24T21:41:42Z")
hi, after downloading the slides I opened each of them in order to retrieve slide spacing at level 0 (in micron per pixel – mpp) ; however, all slides have unusual spacing values: 1000 judging from a few slides I visual… --- ## [Which variables can be used?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/which-variables-can-be-used/8886)
**Author:** [@JohnDS](https://community.drivendata.org/u/JohnDS)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2023, 3:18am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/which-variables-can-be-used/8886 "2023-04-24T03:18:28Z")
Hi, There is something I do not really understand. In the test\_metadata.csv, there are only age, sexe, body\_site, melanoma\_history and resolution variable. Does it means we can only use these variables in our model ? O… --- ## [Data Images Download from Python code](https://community.drivendata.org/t/data-images-download-from-python-code/8881)
**Author:** [@JohnDS](https://community.drivendata.org/u/JohnDS)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2023, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/data-images-download-from-python-code/8881 "2023-04-23T13:16:34Z")
Hi, We have some difficulties to download images from aws S3 from Python. We got this error =\> ClientError: An error occurred (InvalidAccessKeyId) when calling the ListObjects operation: The AWS Access Key Id you provi… --- ## [Can you add new Python third-party libraries for running code](https://community.drivendata.org/t/can-you-add-new-python-third-party-libraries-for-running-code/8877)
**Author:** [@Biototem](https://community.drivendata.org/u/Biototem)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2023, 7:11am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/can-you-add-new-python-third-party-libraries-for-running-code/8877 "2023-04-22T07:11:29Z")
Can you install ASAP environment for the competition container? According to my test, ASAP has a greater speed improvement in reading tif data compared to openslide/pyvips, especially at the larger level. I think the fas… --- ## [Submission stuck at status "Starting"](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submission-stuck-at-status-starting/8872)
**Author:** [@aschieb](https://community.drivendata.org/u/aschieb)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submission-stuck-at-status-starting/8872 "2023-04-21T16:31:17Z")
Hello, We have developed a solution that runs well locally using the Docker environment. I’ve been trying to submit this solution as a smoke test earlier today, but every time it gets stuck for more than an hour at stat… [Next page](https://community.drivendata.org/c/visiomel-melanoma/93.md?page=1)