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What does your science look like? 👀 The Best Scientific Image Contest 2026 is now open! Share your most beautiful, surprising, or powerful scientific image & let it travel far beyond the lab. Awards, exhibitions & calendar feature await.

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This image shows Kathryn Spiers, GEO magazine in her hand, standing in a beamline at DESY. She is one of the co-authors of the image “Rare Earth Element Fern”, that was awarded 2nd prize (Public Choice) at the Helmholtz Imaging Best Scientific Image Contest 2025, and that was recently featured in GEO magazine.

A winning image from the Helmholtz Imaging Best Scientific Image Contest 2025 was featured in GEO magazine.

“Rare Earth Element Fern” by Kathryn Spiers from @DESYnews et al. shows how scientific images can reach far beyond research.

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Description: Visual to promote the Helmholtz Imaging Newsletter No. 25, image by Rafael Deliz-Aguirre, MDC. This image shows starfish embryos generating tiny currents that push them together to form crystal-like arrangements. The image shows colorful lines that create circles on a black background.

Our new Helmholtz Imaging Newsletter is out! 🙌

Save the date for the HI Conference 2026 (November 9-13), discover new projects & tools, help shape the next conference via our community survey & more 👉 https://bit.ly/HI-Newsletter-25

Image: Rafael […]

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7️⃣ new interdisciplinary Helmholtz Imaging projects have been selected! 🎉

New this year: the Generalizing Imaging Solutions track, supporting projects that develop reusable, cross-domain imaging solutions.

Congratulations to all teams!

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Experience imaging excellence and meet the minds shaping the future of imaging!

Join us to discuss real-world imaging challenges, explore cutting-edge research, and connect with experts across @association.

📅 November 9–13, 2026
📍 Leipzig

Save the date & […]

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✨ Season’s Greetings from Helmholtz Imaging ✨

We'd like to take a moment to thank our amazing community for another inspiring year.

Together, we pushed imaging science forward. Here’s to new projects, trainings & connections in 2026.

Happy holidays!

#helmholtzimaging #imaging #imagingscience

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Our final newsletter of the year is out! 🙌

Participate in our conference survey (and raffle), learn more about our new tool PixelPatrol, dive into new workshop recordings, discover the UNLOCK projects, explore community updates & more - all in one place! […]

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Meet #PixelPatrol, a new (early-version) quality control & exploration tool for scientific image datasets.

PixelPatrol helps you quickly assess quality, consistency, and completeness of your data BEFORE diving into analysis.

Explore the tool 👉 […]

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The Helmholtz Platforms Roadshow is tomorrow! 👏

Join us at 11:00–12:30 PM CEST to explore how Helmholtz Imaging and our Helmholtz Data Science partner platforms can support your research.

Our colleagues Sara Krause-Solberg and […]

Visual to promote the 12 projects from the Helmholtz UNLOCK call

The @association is taking the next big step toward trustworthy AI! 12 projects from the UNLOCK call will build open, high-quality multimodal, and cross-domain benchmarks to test & compare AI models across science.

More 👉 https://bit.ly/UNLOCK-Launch

#AI […]

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Group photo, workshop of mathematics of tranformers, September 2025, Hamburg

Researchers from across Europe met at @DESYnews to explore an emerging field: the mathematics of transformers. The workshop connected experts from theory and practice to advance our understanding of deep learning.

More 👉 https://bit.ly/mathematics-of-transformers

Only a few spots left!

Join our 3D Data Visualization Workshop (Nov 10–13, Berlin) & bring your volumetric data to life with tools like Fiji, Blender & Neuroglancer.

Open to Helmholtz & HIDA community

Register by Oct 26 👉 events.hifis.net/event/2781/

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Working with data, code, images, or metadata?

Join the virtual #Helmholtz Platforms Roadshow on 12/11 at 11 AM CEST 👉 https://bit.ly/Helmholtz-Platforms-Roadshow-2025

Meet Helmholtz AI, HIDA, HIFIS, @helmholtz_hmc & @HelmholtzImaging to discover free tools […]

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🌟 We’re excited to share our weekly showcase of the Best Scientific Images 2025 on Instagram starting next week! 📸

Join us @HelmholtzImaging to explore winning images and top runners-up that celebrate the beauty of science 👉 https://bit.ly/HIonInstagram […]

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Registration open: Introduction to Image Registration workshop

Explore fundamental concepts & practical techniques for image registration, focusing on applications in microscopy, material science, and earth science.

📅 Oct 29, 10–11:30 AM CEST (online) […]

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Visual to promote the Helmholtz Imaging Newsletter No. 23, image by Jenny Hein & Thomas van de Kamp, KIT

Our new Helmholtz Imaging Newsletter is out! 🙌

Highlights include:
▪️ new data science training courses
▪️ innovative imaging applications
▪️ interview on mathematics of machine learning
▪️ a new data tool
▪️ science communication support
▪️ a survey on […]

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Registration is open: Regularization in Image Reconstruction!

Understand image reconstruction & inverse problems, explore regularization strategies, deep learning & Bayesian approaches – with hands-on tutorials.

📅 October 6, 2025 (7h online course)

Free & […]

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HIDS booth at DSS2025 at HEREON

We’re at the DSS2025 at @hereonhelmholtz in Geesthacht today and tomorrow!

Discover what Helmholtz AI, #HelmholtzImaging, HIDA, HIFIS & @helmholtz_hmc can offer in #AI, #imaging, training, research software & #metadata – all for free, all to boost your […]

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New course alert: 3D Data Visualization!

Bring your volumetric data to life with tools like Fiji, Blender & Neuroglancer.

📅 Nov 10–13, 2025
📍 On-site, Berlin

Free & open to individuals affiliated with @association or a HIDA partner

Register now 👉 […]

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Oct 16: Last, but not least: Dagmar Kainmüller (Helmholtz Imaging, @MDC_Berlin) on current machine learning models for image segmentation—including how to apply such models to large data.

Register for the series 👉 https://bit.ly/6-image-processing-tasks

@helmholtz
#imaging #Segmentation

Oct 9: Deborah Schmidt (Helmholtz Imaging, @MDC_Berlin) on visualizing spatial datasets. Learn how to tell your data’s story through visualizations.

Register for the series 👉 https://bit.ly/6-image-processing-tasks

@helmholtz
#imaging #datavisualization #3D #spatial

Oct 2: Ullrich Koethe (Heidelberg University) on explainable machine learning. Understand what drives decisions in neural networks & how to improve them.

Register for the series 👉 https://bit.ly/6-image-processing-tasks

@helmholtz
#imaging #XAI #machinelearning #DeepLearning

Sept 25: Learn to track objects over time and instances. With Carsten Rother (@uniheidelberg).

Register for the series 👉 https://bit.ly/6-image-processing-tasks

@helmholtz
#imaging #Tracking #ImageAnalysis

Sept 18: Learn how to remove noise from imaging data with supervised, self-supervised & generative AI. With Alexander Krull (University Birmingham).

Register for the series 👉 https://bit.ly/6-image-processing-tasks

@helmholtz
#imaging #ImageDenoising #AI

Sept 11: Christoph Lerche (@fzj) on tomographic reconstruction in MRI, CT & PET. Understand the fundamentals behind 3D medical images.

Register for the series 👉 https://bit.ly/6-image-processing-tasks

@helmholtz
#imaging #MedicalImaging #Tomography

Sept 4: Phillip Kollmansberger will kick off our #imageprocessing series with an overview of all six key tasks, from reconstruction to explainable #AI.

Register for the series 👉 https://bit.ly/6-image-processing-tasks

@helmholtz @hhu.de

#HelmholtzImaging #imaging

Working with image data? Then this course is for you.

Join our free online seminar series “6 Main Tasks in Image Processing” from September 4 to October 16, 2025 (Thursdays)!

This course is open to @association employees & HIDA partners.

More 👉 […]

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What can #mathematics teach us about #machinelearning?

Martin Burger @DESY shares why the Conference on Mathematics of Machine Learning 2025 brings together theory & practice to explore how math can help explain, guide & improve ML systems.

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#Terragon makes satellite data more accessible!

Check out our new post on #CONNECT to see how the #HelmholtzImaging project #WeMonitor simplifies Earth observation data access with this #open-source tool 👉 https://bit.ly/terragon-tool

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Visual to promote the Helmholtz Imaging Newsletter No. 22, image by Jana Kroll from MDC

The latest Helmholtz Imaging Newsletter is here! 🙌

#HIconference25 recap, #BSIC2025 winners, #HIProject Call 2025, new resources like #OMERO for Helmholtz & Helmholtz Model Zoo & more 👉 https://bit.ly/HI-Newsletter-22

Happy reading!

@association @DESYnews […]

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