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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · Aug 26

⏳ 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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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · Aug 12

⏳ 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

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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · Aug 12

⏳ 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

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EMBRC (European Marine Biological Resource Centre) @embrc-eu.bsky.social · Jul 16

#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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BiaPy @biapyx.bsky.social · Jul 15

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 🤓

BioImage.IO - Model Zoo

BioImage Model Zoo - A community-driven, open resource for sharing standardized AI models for bioimage analysis

bioimage.io

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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · Jul 10

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/

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Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · Jul 1

- 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).

Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · Jun 23

Are you looking for a postdoc?
I will be looking for 2-4 people after the summer to join the lab !!
Do not hesitate to reach out and disseminate !!

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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · Jun 30

🐾 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

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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

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...

ai4life-mdc24.grand-challenge.org

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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · Jun 27

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/

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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · Jun 26

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-...

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Arrate Munoz-Barrutia @arratemunoz.bsky.social · Jun 17

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

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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · May 28

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 💚

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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · May 28

📘 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! 🤖

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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · May 28

☁️ 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!

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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · May 28

🌐 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...

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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · May 28

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

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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · May 28

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!

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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · May 28

💬 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.

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BiaPy @biapyx.bsky.social · May 28

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

AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · May 27

🧠 AI4Life wouldn’t be the same without the amazing BioImage.IO community partners!
Now showcasing real-world tools from our partners: DeepIcy, @biapyx.bsky.social, SpotMAX and QuPath.

Huge thanks to our collaborators!

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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · May 28

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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · May 28

💡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!

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Elnaz @mycroscopy.bsky.social · May 28

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.

AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · May 27

The AI4Life Community Event has officially begun! 🦒
We're live from Katajanokan Kasino in Helsinki 🇫🇮, welcoming participants from across Europe and beyond. Stay tuned for highlights!

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Fragment-Screen @fragment-screen.bsky.social · May 28

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

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Elnaz @mycroscopy.bsky.social · May 28

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

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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · May 28

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

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