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The 3-D ROC forum also functions as a teambuilding space: members from diverse scientific fields are encouraged to list their areas of expertise and communicate with each other to initiate collaborations. NEI encourages solvers to work together outside the forum venue toward the scientific goals of the challenge, but is not responsible for maintaining, evaluating, or overseeing collaborations that result from interactions in the forum. Once teams are formed, all sharing of information and data should be done at the challenge participants’ discretion.

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