AI4Life’s highlights at I2K 2024
by Beatriz Serrano-Solano
AI4Life played an important role at the 2024 Images to Knowledge (I2K) conference, held from October 23-25 at the Human Technopole in Milan. As a major event for experts at the intersection of life sciences and quantitative image analysis, I2K offered AI4Life partners an ideal platform to showcase their latest advancements and community contributions.
AI4Life’s impact began at the organizational level, with the AI4Life scientific coordinators Florian Jug and Anna Kreshuk serving on the scientific organizers committee. The conference also welcomed Ricardo Henriques from Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) – University College London (UCL) as an invited speaker, highlighting AI4Life’s expertise in superresolution microscopy.
Hands-on learning with specialised workshops
A series of workshops allowed participants to dive into AI4Life’s practical tools and methods:
- Building Your Own Chatbot for BioImage Analysis: Opening the series on Wednesday.
- Accelerating Microscopy Image Annotation with SAMJ Annotator and DL4MicEverywhere: Making your deep learning pipelines flexible, shareable, and reproducible workshops on Thursday, enhancing image annotation speed and flexibility.
- Friday’s sessions included 4 workshops on BiaPy: deep learning based Bioimage Analysis for all audiences, Recent Advances in ilastik, AI4Life: Empowering BioImaging through the BioEngine, and an Introduction to AI4Life and the BioImage Model Zoo
Poster presentations
AI4Life partners presented two posters:
– BioImage.IO Chatbot: A community-driven AI assistant advancing integrative computational Bioimaging, presented on Wednesday.
– Building Foundations for AI-Driven Bioimage Analysis: Discussing infrastructure and annotation platforms critical for bioimage analysis, shared on Thursday.
We look forward to the next I2K and are excited to contribute further to this inspiring community!
