Monday, April 29th, 2024 - 11:15 - Baltzerstrasse 4, C161
Dr. Virginie Uhlmann | Director of the Biovision Center at the University of Zurich | European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
||"Turning morphology into numbers…and streamlining bioimage analysis at scale"||
Modern microscopy generates imaging data across a vast range of spatio-temporal scales and at various resolutions, broadening the extent of observable morphological features in biological systems. Acknowledging that morphology information is present in most types of microscopy data, the Uhlmann group at EMBL-EBI develop general-purpose, modality-agnostic methods for bioimage quantification. In this talk, I will first review our efforts towards automating the extraction of quantitative morphology descriptors from a range of microscopy images, and towards proposing novel data analysis techniques to mine collections of such measurements. I will then give an overview of the BioVisionCenter, a new initiative for FAIR bioimage analysis co-founded by the University of Zurich and the Friedrich Miescher Institute. There, we aim at bridging the gap between novel computer vision method development and their broader application at scale, and ultimately allowing bioimage analysis methods to become widely usable tools.
