As we wrap up the year, we’re reflecting on what AI4Life delivered and what continues beyond the project. AI4Life concluded in August 2025, but its outcomes remain central to FAIR, accessible AI-powered bioimage analysis. Here’s where to start: www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/ai4life...

Imagine you’re a scientist studying how plants respond to environmental stress. You want to see how long-term drought conditions affect certain cell membrane structures, but doing it manually would take months of work, and you lack the skills to build a computer algorithm that could do it for you.

⏳ 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! 👇

⏳ 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/ 🌊🧪🦑

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

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...

🧠 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!

First workshop is rolling! 🚀 We’re diving into the BioImage Model Zoo @bioimageIO — where life scientists meet powerful AI tools for bioimage analysis. Let’s explore what’s inside the Zoo! 🐾

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!

@biapyx.bsky.social & Bioimage Model Zoo making people Happy! 😅 at #neubiaspasteur2025 @jwpylvanainen.bsky.social @ai4life.bsky.social

Did you know that Bioimage Archive has a specific database for people to share AI-ready imaging datasets? I did not until @yanlanmao.bsky.social told me! Please deposit! If people regularly submitted, it would have a huge collective impact on bioimage analysis. www.ebi.ac.uk/bioimage-arc...

Second round of hashtag#GloBIAS Free Help (previously Call4Help) is happening in May. You can register for the sessions on our webpage: www.globias.org/activities/g... Registration deadline is 7. May 2025.

⏳ Only 8 days left to register for the AI4Life Community Event in Helsinki! Day 1️⃣: Workshops for life scientists, software devs, AI researchers & image analysts Day 2️⃣: Talks, discussions & networking If that sounds like you, don’t miss it! 👉 ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/event/ai4lif...

Following the release of @gomez-mariscal.bsky.social and Mariana Ferreira #ReScale4DL work, Estibaliz shared her view on "FAIR and high-quality AI-ready data for bioimage analysis" on the 4-part @ai4life.bsky.social webinar series in collab with #GloBIAS 📅 Don´t miss the next one at: t.co/9TdywIGrgy

📢 The AI4EOSC Webinar is this Friday! 🗓️ April 11, 10:00–12:00 CET 🛠️ DevOps in AI 🔁 MLOps + MLFlow demo 🤖 OSCAR for inference 🧩 AI4Compose pipelines 📡 Live on YouTube with Q&A 🔗 Sign up: indico.ifca.es/event/3393/ #AI4EOSC #Webinar #AI #MLOps #DevOps #OpenScience

Just ✌️ days to go! Join us for the next webinar "Towards FAIR and high-quality AI-ready data for bioimage analysis" Don’t miss it — register now 👉 bit.ly/registration...

🎤 AI4Life continues its presence at the @bioimagearchive.bsky.social course! Esti presents BioImage.IO, emphasizing the importance of keeping AI models accessible, reproducible, and interoperable. With so many image analysis tools out there, common model standards are the way forward!

At the @training.ebi.embl.org course on Microscopy Data Analysis: Machine Learning & @bioimagearchive.bsky.social, Dominik Kutra from @ilastik-team.bsky.social introduced ilastik and how it supports image analysis. Now, it's time for a hands-on session! 🚀 #BioImageAnalysis #MachineLearning

👏 Congrulations, AI4Life project! Efforts by @ai4life.bsky.social, coordinated by #EuroBioImaging, to make AI-powered bioimage analysis accessible, through open calls for scientists to community-driven initiatives, have been recognised by 🇪🇺 DG RTD. Learn more: www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/congrat...

AI4Life is a thriving community! 👥 So many events, so many audiences! ➡️ 👉 Check out our latest report with the outreach and dissemination activities so far: ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/ai4life-adva... ⚠️ And don’t miss our BIG community event this May: ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/event/ai4lif...

🆕 Fresh training resources from AI4Life! ✅ New tutorials ✅ Updated materials ✅ Videos 🔗 Check out the latest resources: ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/expanding-ai...

Big news for AI4Life! Our project is a success story by the European Commission! 🇪🇺 The Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) highlights our mission of making AI-powered bioimage analysis accessible to researchers everywhere 🌍 Read more: ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/ai4life-high...

End-of-week news! The selected projects for the 3rd AI4Life Open Call are here: 🔹 Phase 1: Consultation – 10 projects received expert guidance 🔹 Phase 2: Deep Learning Support – 8 projects selected for in-depth AI-driven bioimage analysis 🔍 More at: ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/third-ai4lif...

🚀 AI4EOSC Workshops – March 7 🎙️📡 📅 Date: March 7, 2024 | ⏰ Time: 10:00–12:00 CET | 🎥 Live on YouTube Join us for an intro to AI4EOSC, exploring LLMs, Generative AI, Image Processing & Federated Learning, with live demos & Q&A. 📢 Save the date! More info: bit.ly/4hEh22c

Just registered to the AI4Life community event and am supeeer excited 🥰 Helsinki in May is beautiful and the image analysis community is awesome 😎