Helmholtz Imaging Annual Conference 2025

25 Jun 2025, 09:00 → 27 Jun 2025, 15:00 Europe/Berlin

Schinkelhalle Potsdam

Image: Sven Velten, Lars Bocklage, Ilya Sergeev, DESY & Ralf Röhlsberger, HI Jena

The Helmholtz Imaging Conference 2025 is set to take place, and we are thrilled to invite you! This year, we’re bringing imaging enthusiasts to Potsdam on June 25-27, and you won’t want to miss it! This dynamic event is open to all scientists. If you’re involved in imaging research or using imaging techniques or images in your research, this is your conference!

Get ready for:

• 🌟  Inspiring keynotes

• 💬  Dynamic discussions

• 🧠  Insightful scientific talks

• 🖼️  Interactive poster sessions

• 🤝  Expanding your network with fellow researchers 

• 📢  Presenting your amazing work

• 📈  Staying ahead with the latest trends in imaging

• 🚀  Helping shape the future of Helmholtz Imaging! 

 

The call for abstracts is cosed.

 

R E G I S T R A T I O N  I S   S T I L L   O P E N   !

 

To register for the Pre-Workshop on „Advances and Challenges in Zebrafish Image and Video Analysis“ please use this LINK.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

We’re putting together a comprehensive program for you! Here’s a sneak peek:

Inspiring scientific talks including keynotes by: Robert Haase (University of Leipzig) Laura Waller  (UC Berkeley) Manuel Guizar-Sicairos (Paul Scherrer Institut, Villingen)

BYOIC – Bring Your Own Imaging Challenge! THE unconference session will return! Submit your topic and ideas as an issue and let the imaging community tackle it together. >> More...

Pre-Workshops Kick off the conference with your own workshop! On Wednesday morning, before the main event begins, you have the exciting opportunity to host a pre-conference workshop. Don’t miss this chance to connect, share, and inspire! >> More...

 

OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

	Robert Haase is a bio-analysis expert at Leipzig University. He developed GPU-accelerated tools like clEsperanto and CLIJ, advancing biological image processing efficiency.
	Laura Waller is a professor at UC Berkeley and an expert in computational imaging. She pioneered advancements in phase retrieval and Fourier ptychography, revolutionizing microscopy and optical imaging.
	Manuel Guizar-Sicairos is a physicist at EPFL and PSI, specializing in computational X-ray imaging. He co-developed advanced ptychography and nanotomography techniques for nanoscale 3D imaging in fields like neuroscience and battery research.

 

Don’t miss out – mark your calendars, and get ready to be inspired! 🚀

Wednesday 25 June

09:00 → 12:00 Pre-Conference Workshops

12:00 → 13:00 Registration & Coffee

13:00 → 13:30 Welcome / Introduction

13:30 → 14:15 Keynote 1: "Large Language Models for Bio-Image Data Science" by Robert Haase

Convener: Robert Haase (ScaDS.AI, Uni Leipzig)

14:15 → 14:30 Workflows for Imaging Pipeline: Turbocharged 3D Histology: Revolutionizing Medical Tissue Analysis with Automation, Light Sheet Microscopy, and Nanobodies

Convener: Michael Weber

14:30 → 14:45 Workflows for Imaging Pipeline: EAP4EMSIG – An AI-powered Pipeline for Real-time Event-based Experiment Automation in Microfluidic Live Cell Imaging

Convener: Angelo Jovin Yamachui Sitcheu (KIT-IAI-AIDA-ML4TIME)

14:45 → 15:00 Workflows for Imaging Pipeline: AutoCoast: A Web-Based Coastal Monitoring Platform

Convener: David Pogorzelski

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 15:45 Multi-modality / Scalability: Multi-Sensor Multi-Stream Data Fusion Using Deep Learning for Hyperspectral Point Cloud Segmentation

Convener: Dr Ahmed J. Afifi (Digital Processing, Department of Exploration, Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF))

15:45 → 16:00 Multi-modality / Scalability: Four-dimensional visualization of volcanic landforms based on optical photogrammetric and radar tomographic data

Convener: Frieder Knabe (Wissenschaftsladen Potsdam e.V.)

16:00 → 16:15 Multi-modality / Scalability: Virtual staining for 3D X-ray histology of bone implants with deep learning

Convener: Dr Sarah Irvine (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon)

16:15 → 16:25 Survey: Got ideas? We’re listening!

16:25 → 16:45 Coffee Break

16:45 → 17:00 Data Curation & Data Handling: The EM Glossary: A Community Resource Providing Harmonised Terminology in Electron Microscopy

Convener: Oonagh Mannix (HMC matter/HZB)

17:00 → 17:15 Data Curation & Data Handling: Making marine image data FAIR

Convener: Timm Schoening (GEOMAR)

17:15 → 17:30 Data Curation & Data Handling: PixelPatrol: Pre-validation for Scientific Image Datasets

Convener: Ella Bahry

17:30 → 20:00 Poster Session followed by Fingerfood

Thursday 26 June

09:00 → 09:10 Opening

09:10 → 09:55 Keynote 2: "Nanostructure mapping in 3D and beyond through computational X-ray imaging" by Manuel Guizar-Sicairos

09:55 → 10:10 Image Reconstruction Part 1: Directional Full-Field Dark-Field Transmission X-ray Microscopy at the Nanoscale

Convener: Sami Wirtensohn

10:10 → 10:25 Image Reconstruction Part 1: Live 3D-Reconstruction of X-Ray Tomographic Data

Convener: Dr Markus Osterhoff (Röntgenphysik Göttingen)

10:25 → 10:55 Coffee Break

10:55 → 11:10 Image Reconstruction Part 2: AVANTI - Advanced imaging analysis methods for Xray tomoscopy of dynamic processes

Convener: Tristan Kammbach (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB))

11:10 → 11:25 Image Reconstruction Part 2: Intensity Contrast Transfer Phase Retrieval

Convener: Tomas Farago (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

11:25 → 11:40 Image Reconstruction Part 2: Advancements in Ptychography through the Alternating Amplitude Flow algorithm

Convener: Maximilian Töllner

11:40 → 11:55 Image Reconstruction Part 2: Lensless EUV Microscopy for Materials and Biological Nanoscale Imaging

Convener: Daniel Santiago Penagos Molina

11:55 → 12:10 Helmholtz Model Zoo: The Helmholtz Model Zoo: Enabling AI Model Sharing and Inference in the Helmholtz Cloud

Convener: Philipp Heuser (Helmholtz Imaging/DESY)

12:10 → 13:40 Group Picture & Lunchbreak

13:40 → 14:10 BYOIC - Bring Your Own Imaging Challenge!: BYOIC Pitches

14:10 → 15:40 BYOIC - Bring Your Own Imaging Challenge!: Session

15:40 → 16:10 Coffee Break

16:10 → 16:25 Data Acquisition: Rapid measurement of ice core chemical maps

Convener: Piers Larkman

16:25 → 16:40 Data Acquisition: High-resolution 3D subsurface imaging with drone-borne SAR systems

Convener: Mahdi Motagh (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences)

16:40 → 16:55 Data Acquisition: Deep Generative Phase Reconstruction for X-Ray Holography

Convener: Ritz Ann Aguilar (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR))

16:55 → 17:00 Setup Break

17:00 → 17:30 Awarding Ceremony BSIC: Best Scientific Image Contest Awarding

17:30 → 19:30 Socializing in Courtyard

19:30 → 21:30 Conference Dinner

Friday 27 June

09:00 → 09:10 Opening

09:10 → 09:55 Keynote 3: "Computational microscopy of dynamic samples" by Laura Waller

09:55 → 10:10 AI for Image Analysis Part 1: CytoNet: A Foundation Model for Microscopic Analysis of Cytoarchitecture in the Human Brain

Convener: Christian Schiffer (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

10:10 → 10:25 AI for Image Analysis Part 1: Diffusion Based Unsupervised Temporal Interpolation for 4D Medical Imaging

Convener: Zeyad Abdelfattah Zaki Mahmoud

10:25 → 10:55 Coffee Break

10:55 → 11:10 Cross-disciplinary Data Integration: VoltRon: A Spatial Omics Analysis Platform for Multi-Resolution and Multi-omics Integration using Image Registration

Convener: Artur Manukyan (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine)

11:10 → 11:25 Cross-disciplinary Data Integration: Use of Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Images to tune a semi-empirical Model for Wind Speed Deficits downstream of offshore Wind Farms

Convener: Johannes Schulz-Stellenfleth (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon)

11:25 → 11:40 Moonshot Projects: Imaging goes Quantum - Quantum Machine Learning for Image Generation

Convener: Kerstin Borras (DESY and RWTH Aachen University)

11:40 → 12:10 Coffee Break

12:10 → 12:25 AI for Image Analysis Part 2: Explainable Unsupervised Model for Coastline Change Monitoring in Sentinel-2 Time Series

Convener: Chandrabali Karmakar (DLR)

12:25 → 12:40 AI for Image Analysis Part 2: EchoVisuAL v1.16: An automated high-precision analysis workflow for mouse echocardiograms in preclinical cardiovascular research

Convener: Isabella Rikarda Galter

12:40 → 12:55 AI for Image Analysis Part 2: ConText Transformer: Text-guided Instance Segmentation in Scientific Imaging

Convener: Mr Eric Upschulte (University Hospital Düsseldorf, Cécile & Oscar Vogt Institute for Brain Research)

12:55 → 13:10 AI for Image Analysis Part 2: LungVis Family: an AI-powered organ imaging technology enables quantitative and interactive exploration of lung morphometry and aerosol inhalation

Convener: Lin Yang (Institute of Lung Health and Immunity (LHI), Helmholtz Munich, Comprehensive Pneumology Center (CPC-M), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany,)

13:10 → 13:15 Closing

13:15 → 14:15 Networking Lunch