TopBrain 2025

From the team behind the TopCoW challenge, we present a new challenge to segment the whole brain vessel anatomy. Previously, TopCoW focused on the the vessels from the Circle of Willis (CoW). Now TopBrain will cover all the major arteries and veins of a brain angiogram. We are very excited to release the first dataset annotating over 40 major vessel anatomies of two commonly used brain angiography modalities, and look forward to your amazing submissions!


1 Task, 2 Tracks, 40+ Vessels

TopBrain has one multiclass segmentation task for two separate modality tracks. Each track is for a commonly used non-invasive angiography modality: magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) and computed tomography angiography (CTA). The task is to segment over 40 vessel classes on a CTA or MRA scan.


Timeline

  • ⏳ MICCAI challenge event: Sep 23 2025
  • ⏳ Submit to final-test phase (tentatively Sep 13 - Sep 20 2025)
  • ⏳ Submit to validation phase (tentatively Sep 05 - Sep 20 2025)
  • ⏳ Release of training data (tentatively July 20 2025)
    • Please stay tuned! Click join and register for our challenge for more updates :)

TopCoW Challenge

Check out the 👉 📰 summary paper of our previous TopCoW challenge:

  • Yang, Musio, Ma, et al. "Benchmarking the CoW with the TopCoW challenge: Topology-aware anatomical segmentation of the Circle of Willis for CTA and MRA." ArXiv (2024): arXiv-2312. [Link]

Our GitHub

Please visit our GitHub for repos and documentations on:

  • Template algorithm submission (Coming soon)
  • Evaluation metric functions (Coming soon)

Forum

We have a forum to post your questions! (Coming soon)


Last updated on Jun 09, 2025