How I got into Harrison.ai: Experimental Reasoning on a Pneumothorax Kaggle Competition
2026-06-08
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Introduction
This was the take-home task that got me into Harrison.ai. My goal was to showcase how I would go about developing a model and explain my experimental reasoning. Below is the original notebook I submitted, exactly as it was. For context, this was done in November, 2019; EffientNetV1 had just come out and was on top of the leaderboards, UNet++ came out the year before. Vision transformers hadn't yet come out and impacted the computer vision world.
The Task:
Kaggle Competition: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/siim-acr-pneumothorax-segmentation
Please perform the following technical task and present your findings, e.g., in a Jupyter notebook
- Access and download the dataset from the Kaggle competition for Pneunomthorax detection: https://www.kaggle.com/c/siim-acr-pneumothorax-segmentation/overview
- Perform appropriate exploratory data analysis and visualisation
- Build a best-effort algorithm to detect a visual signal for Pneunomthorax as per the competition evaluation metric
- Generate appropriate graphs / results table to assess model performance
- Make a baseline submission to the late submission pool
- Discuss shortcomings and the improvements you would make to the dataset, evaluation metrics and algorithm
[7. Discuss the task together in the next week.]
My Submission
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