AI4Life

⏳ The countdown is on!
This is the final week to submit your entry to the AI4Life Challenges. Show what you can do and share your skills!
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⏳ Extra time unlocked!
The #AI4Life challenges deadline is now August 31 — more time to train, tweak, and triumph with your best AI models for bioimage analysis!

🚀 Take on the challenge:
1️⃣ Denoising: ai4life-mdc25.grand-challenge.org
2️⃣ Calcium Imaging: ai4life-cidc25.grand-challenge.org

#EUProject | #BioImaging & AI

➡️ BioImage Model Zoo by @ai4life.bsky.social is a platform for #AI models in biological imaging

➡️ To find out about the training courses and tools available to help you use the platform correctly for your area of study, visit: www.embrc.eu/project/ai4life/

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In the meantime, we have more than 46 pretrained models from ⛴️ BiaPy available now in the 🦒 Bioimage Model Zoo 🫶 @ai4life.bsky.social

🔗 Have a look at: bioimage.io#/models

As usual, they are accesible from BiaPy's GUI 🖥️, Colab notebooks 📔 and our API 🤓

3rd challenge from AI4Life! We're inviting the community to design unsupervised models that preserve spatial & temporal patterns in neuronal data.

📅 Open till Aug 11, 2025
🚀 Join now: ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/challenge-3/

- A postdoc to work on cancer extravasation (4-year project).
- A postdoc help in completing Filopodia-related lab projects (2-year).
- Multiple Marie Curie postdoc positions that will open in the fall.
- We will open a 5-year position to cover my teaching (70% research and 30% teaching).

🐾 The BioImage Model Zoo just got a major upgrade!

It has been fully redesigned, offering a new backend, model uploader, community curation tools, and integrated browser-based test runs powered by BioEngine. 🧪

Explore now 👉 bioimage.io

AI4Life Microscopy Denoising Challenge - Grand Challenge Wellcome to AI4Life-MDC24! In this challenge, we want to focus on an unsupervised denoising of microscopy images. By participating, researchers can contribute to a critical area of scientific research...

If unsupervised approaches are your thing, also check out the unsupervised denoising challenge and submit your solutions (the challenge is from last year, but we are still taking entries from everyone who is interested).

👉 ai4life-mdc24.grand-challenge.org

The 2nd AI4Life Challenge is live!
Calling the AI & bioimaging community to tackle a key microscopy challenge: removing noise while preserving detail.

📦 Paired noisy/clean datasets
📈 Ground-truth evaluation
🧠 DL focus

Build, test, compete 👉 ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/challenge-2/

Ever wished your AI model could test itself before you download it? Now it can.

AI4Life has a new model evaluation platform that connects models from the BioImage Model Zoo to real data in the @bioimagearchive.bsky.social.

Details here 👉 ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/the-ai4life-...

@ai4life.bsky.social & @eu-openscreen.bsky.social link highlighted in the isciii eu infrastructures for health event

The AI4Life Community Event comes to a close. We wrapped up with a big-picture discussion around the sustainability of services and the role that AI4Life plays in the EOSC.
Thank you to everyone who joined us in Helsinki and online! 🦒
Stay connected 💚

📘 Where science meets policy: Stefan Liebler (European Commission 🇪🇺) shares insights on Open Science, AI, EOSC, and how projects like AI4Life support the European research strategy. But also, he showcased notebooks running on the EOSC EU node! 🤖

☁️ Interoperability in action: @ai4eosc.eu’s AI4Life cloud marketplace lets researchers run Bioimage.IO models. A true success story of aligning European infrastructure for science. Thanks to our friends at @ai4eosc.eu for making this possible!

🌐 Shoutout to @globias.bsky.social, one of our global partners in promoting community-driven AI presented by @mycroscopy.bsky.social

🎥 Did you catch our joint seminar series? Don't forget to register for the upcoming ones!
bit.ly/registration...

Partner Research infrastructures in AI4Life have been instrumental in the reach of use cases gathered at the open calls. We heard today about some successful projects!

@embrc-eu.bsky.social, EU-OPENSCREEN, EMPHASIS and @instruct-eric.bsky.social

Industry collaboration is key to real-world impact. @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social is a contributor to CAREamics, one of the BioImage.IO community partners. Also, Bioimage.IO models can be applied right after image acquisition with ZEN API. We need more of that!

💬 After lunch, we’re back with the AI4Life Community: tool builders, research infrastructures, and industry voices. Community tools like @biapyx.bsky.social and SpotMAX show how AI4Life partners are building bridges between developers and end users.

Yay! Well done @danifranco93.bsky.social 🤗 and long life to @ai4life.bsky.social 🤩

💡Success stories from AI4Life: From the BioImage.IO models to @bioimagearchive.bsky.social’s AI-ready datasets, and community resources like the Helpdesk, Open Calls, and Challenges — see how it all connects in one ecosystem!

What an amazing two days it’s been! Follow @ai4life.bsky.social to learn more about the amazing talks on AI in life science and how it’s shaping the future of life science research.

AI is an integral part of Fragment-Screen - great to be recognised at the @ai4life.bsky.social Community Meeting today!

We are keen to interact with experts across Europe and beyond to advance the use of AI and Machine Learning for FBDD! @instruct-eric.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social

Walking through streets of Helsinki. After-conference social events are the best way to finish the day. Sunny Helsinki summer night, good weather, good company, what else can one ask for? @florianjug.bsky.social @jwpylvanainen.bsky.social @turkubioimaging.bsky.social @ai4life.bsky.social

Irina Belaia from the Finnish Advanced Microscopy @eurobioimaging.bsky.social Node shares their experience using AI for user projects. Did you know that they offer open access to image analysis services through @eurobioimaging.bsky.social? @turkubioimaging.bsky.social

📸 Good morning from Helsinki! 🇫🇮
We're back for Day 2 of the AI4Life Community Event and we’re kicking things off with a warm welcome from John Eriksson and @antjekeppler.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social

🧩 The dream: FAIR models and data. Only standards can solve the MxN problem, and this session is exactly about that. And we wrap up today’s workshops with a group reflection:
Why are FAIR resources essential for scientific progress?

Want to host your own AI models without relying on external infrastructure?

Enter BioEngine
ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/announcing-b...

Your go-to for flexible, self-hosted bioimage analysis. Open source, scalable, and built for you!

🔧 Time for our tech-savvy crowd!
The afternoon kicks off with a workshop for developers and image analysts: creating, uploading, containerising, and deploying models like a pro.

📊 What does AI-ready data actually look like?
Time to find out! Head over to @bioimagearchive.bsky.social’s gallery — it’s like an art museum for high-quality training data and metadata. Perfect for your next model!
www.ebi.ac.uk/bioimage-arc...