Workshop #2

To realize their potential, artificial intelligence (AI) models in medicine often require large amounts of high-quality annotated medical images (e.g., surgical images, CT scans) as training data. Annotation of such images (e.g., segmenting relevant structures) often must be manually done by medical experts, which is a time-intensive, monotonous and tedious process. Thus, it is often difficult for annotators to stay motivated and engaged with medical image annotation task, which can negatively impact annotation quality. One approach to motivate individuals is gamification—the use of game design elements (e.g., points, badges, leaderboards) in non-game contexts. Gamification has shown great potential in application areas like healthcare or education to motivate people to perform certain behaviors (e.g., increased physical activity). To be successful, gamification concepts do however require a careful and context-specific design. In this workshop, we look at gamification as a way to foster annotation quality through annotators’ increased motivation and engagement. Following a brief introduction to medical image annotation tasks and gamification, participants will have the chance to design and discuss their own gamification concepts for medical image annotation tasks. Afterwards, we will introduce a real-world example of a gamified medical image annotation tool from our own research, which participants get to test and provide feedback on.