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! 👇

AI4Life@ai4life.bsky.social · last yr.

⏳ 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

⏳ 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).

Guillaume Jacquemet@guijacquemet.bsky.social · last yr.

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 !!

🐾 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 🤩

AI4Life@ai4life.bsky.social · last yr.

🧠 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!

💡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.

AI4Life@ai4life.bsky.social · last yr.

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!

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...