AI4Life @AI4Life@qoto.org

⏳ 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: https://ai4life-mdc25.grand-challenge.org/
2️⃣ Calcium Imaging: https://ai4life-cidc25.grand-challenge.org/

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: https://ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/challenge-3/

🐾 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 👉 https://bioimage.io

The second AI4Life Challenge is now live:

We're calling on the AI & bioimaging community to tackle one of microscopy’s biggest hurdles - removing acquisition noise while preserving biological detail.

📦 Real paired datasets (noisy + clean)
📈 Ground-truth-based evaluation
🧠 Focus on deep learning approaches
🔁 Build, test, improve, and compete!

Contribute to better image quality and more accurate science.
👉 https://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 BioImage Archive.

Details here 👉 https://ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/the-ai4life-model-evaluation-platform-building-bridges-between-the-bioimage-archive-and-the-bioimage-model-zoo/

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’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 for making this possible!

🌐 Shoutout to GloBIAS, one of our global partners in promoting inclusive, community-driven AI.
🎥 Did you catch our joint seminar series? Don't forget to register for the upcoming ones!

https://bit.ly/registration-globias-ai4life-webinars

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-OPENSCREEN, EMPHASIS and Instruct

Industry collaboration is key to real-world impact. ZEISS is a contributor to CAREamics, one of the BioImageIO 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 BiaPy and SpotMAX show how AI4Life partners are building bridges between developers and end users.

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

Irina Belaia from the Finnish Advanced Microscopy Euro-BioImaging Node shares their experience using AI for user projects. Did you know that they offer open access to image analysis services through Euro-BioImaging?

📸 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 Antje Keppler from Euro-BioImaging

🧩 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
https://ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/announcing-bioengine/

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