Helmholtz Imaging

#HIConference25 wrapped up in Potsdam with inspiring keynotes, hands-on sessions & the creative “Imaging Holtzhelm” sketches. Thanks to all who joined!

Dive into the recap & highlights 👉 bit.ly/HI-Conference-2025-Recap

#HelmholtzImaging #Helmholtz #imaging #imagingscience

@DESYnews @DKFZ @MDC_Berlin @GFZ

Fabrizio Musacchio

New #TeachingMaterial available: Functional Imaging Data Analysis – From Calcium Imaging to Network Dynamics. This course covers the entire workflow from raw #imaging data to functional insights, including #SpikeInference & #PopulationAnalysis. Designed for students and for self-guided learning, with a focus on open content and reproducibility. Feel free to use and share it 🤗

🌍 fabriziomusacchio.com/blog/202

#Python #DataScience #MachineLearning #Neuroscience #OpenSource #calciumimaging #CompNeuro

Helmholtz Imaging

👏 Big congrats to Annika Reinke for winning the Hector Foundation Prize 2025 for Metrics Reloaded, setting new standards for AI in image analysis.

Learn more, explore the tool & meet all awardees in a video 👉 helmholtz-imaging.de/news/hect

#helmholtz #helmholtzimaging #imaging #metrics #metricsreloaded #AI #imageanalysis

@association @DKFZ

Helmholtz Imaging

Got questions about the #HelmholtzImaging Project Call?

Ask everything you need to know at our next information session on Thursday, July 17, 11:00 to 12:40 PM CEST. Learn how #HIFIS can support your project, too.

Details & registration 👉 events.hifis.net/event/2663/

@association #HIProject #imaging #imagingscience #funding

@Co_Biologists

Looking for new microscopy collaborations, organising speakers for a conference, assembling a committee? Visit and join the @focalplane_jcs network to broaden your contacts and find those who may not come to mind.

focalplane.biologists.com/netw

#Microscopy #Microscope #Imaging #CellBiology #Cells #Cell #MicroBiology #Microorganisms

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:

Since the #PNG spec is getting some updates, I was thinking... you know what would be sick? Baking classic #lossy compression right into PNG.

I don't mean #JPEG or anything like that. Not even the #LossyPNG scheme I enjoy using where I reduce the number of colors to reduce the entropy. That wouldn't need any changes to the spec.

I'm thinking #Amiga HAM modes! Instant 3:1 (well, 2.4:1) lossy compression with (hopefully) minimal artifacting. That would be SICK!

Makes me want to throw together a Python script or something to read PNG files, apply the HAM "compression," and then see how the output looks. It wouldn't provide much compression savings with regular PNG, it would need a change to the format. But since I never had an Amiga, I'm curious to see how it looks, and how well it might scale to modern image resolutions.

Conceptually, it's not much different than 3:1 horizontal chroma subsampling, but might actually look a lot better.

Quick explainer: instead of having a 24-bit-per-pixel image, you have a 10-bit-per-pixel image, where the first two bits are a mode selector, and the last 8 bits are the actual pixel data. The modes are Hold and Modify{R,G,B}. Modify{R,G,B} modify just the red, green, or blue component of the 24-bit color for that pixel with the 8 bits specified. The modify mode assigns that pixel to be equivalent to the 8-bit value from a pre-defined palette or some pre-defined bit-assignment mode like RRRGGGBB or something. So basically, the horizontal color resolution is divided by 3, but sometimes you get lucky and there's no noticeable loss.

#HoldAndModify #Imaging

@Co_Biologists

Early-career researchers, apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales'.

biologists.com/workshops/febru

Application deadline: Friday 15 August 2025

#Imaging #Microscopy #Microscope #Research #Workshop #Plants #PlantPhysiology #PlantCells

ICM

Did you catch yesterday's live stream of imaging DECtapes? You can read about the results and access the images here:

icm.museum/blog/?p=241

Like what we're doing? Please consider joining us today!

#archiving #imaging #data #tape #recovery #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #restoration

Helmholtz Imaging

Day 3 at #HIconference2025 wrapped with exciting talks on #AI for #imageanalysis, data integration & moonshot projects.

A big thank you to all speakers, chairs & participants!

See you next year!

#HelmholtzImaging #imaging #Helmholtz

Helmholtz Imaging

New #opensource cloud-based imaging resource: #OMERO for #Helmholtz is now live🎉

Store, visualize & analyze complex scientific image data 👉 omero.helmholtz-munich.de/

Join the July 17 workshop (25 spots) 👉 events.hifis.net/event/2734/

#HIconference2025 #imaging #HIFIS @association @HelmholtzMunich @ufz @DKFZ

Helmholtz Imaging

And drumroll, please… Here are the #BSIC205 winners!

Congrats to all! Your images go beyond data and tell stories that resonate.

Thanks to all participants, our jury & all voters at #HIconference2025!
See the winners 👉 bit.ly/BSIC-2025-Winners

#HIbestimage25 #imaging #Helmholtz

@association @DESYnews @MDC_Berlin @KIT_Karlsruhe @dlr_next @HZDR

Markus Osterhoff

Tolle Übersicht, Tomas vom KIT vergleicht ICT mit TIE und CTF.

[Edit: schneller Finger hat zu früh abgeschickt, hier die Häschis:]
#XRay #Imaging #PhaseReconstruction #HelmholtzImaging2025 #HIConference2025

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