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Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

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Session 4a: Imaging
9:00am - 10:00am
LAB Lounge
Location: LAB Lounge
Choose from expert-led talks running simultaneously to explore AI topics that match your interests.
9:00am - 9:12am

AI-enabled Colorimetric Multi-Biomarker Sensing Patch for Neonatal Monitoring

Alejandra Castelblanco1,2, Elisabetta Ruggeri3, Giusy Matzeu3, Motaharehsadat Heydarian4, Kai Foerster4,5, Ahmed Bahnasy2, Andreas Flemmer5, Julia A. Schnabel1,2,6, Benjamin Schubert1, Fiorenzo G. Omenetto3,8,9, Anne Hilgendorff4,5,7

1: Computational Health Center, Helmholtz Center Munich, Neuherberg, Germany.; 2: School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.; 3: Silklab, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA.; 4: Comprehensive Pneumology Center with the CPC-M bioArchive and Institute of Lung Health and Immunity, Helmholtz Center Munich, Member of the German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany; 5: Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany; 6: School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, London, UK.; 7: School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany; 8: Dept. of. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA.; 9: Dept. Of Physics, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA.



9:12am - 9:24am

Implicit Neural Representation (INR) meets Multi-Contrast MRI Reconstruction

Natascha Niessen1,2, Carolin M. Pirkl2, Ana Beatriz Solana2, Hannah Eichhorn1,3, Veronika Spieker1,3, Wenqi Huang1, Tim Sprenger2,4, Marion I. Menzel2,5,6, Julia A. Schnabel1,3,7, Predictom Consortium2

1: School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany; 2: GE HealthCare, Munich; 3: Institute of Machine Learning in Biomedical Imaging, Helmholtz Munich; 4: Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; 5: Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Germany; 6: School of Natural Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany; 7: King’s College London, London, United Kingdom



9:24am - 9:36am

Deep Learning Reconstruction of Diffusion Spectrum Imaging from Undersampled q-Space Measurements

Roman Schmid1, Sebastian Endt1,2, Marion I. Menzel1,2

1: Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany; 2: Technical University of Munich, Germany



9:36am - 9:48am

HematoGraph: Graph-Aware Hierarchical Pooling for Cell-Level Hematology Classification

Furkan Dasdelen1,3, Fatih Ozlugedik1,2,3, Carsten Marr1,3

1: Helmholtz Munich, Germany; 2: TUM; 3: LMU



9:48am - 10:00am

Contour Proposal Networks with Deep Refinement for Dense High-Throughput Instance Segmentation

Eric Upschulte1,2,3, Katrin Amunts2,1, Timo Dickscheid4,2,3

1: C. & O. Vogt Institute for Brain Research, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Germany; 2: Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Center Jülich, Germany; 3: Helmholtz AI, Research Center Jülich, Germany; 4: Institute for Computational Visualistics, University of Koblenz, Germany

Keynote Talk: Cordelia Schmid (Inria, Google)
10:00am - 10:45am
LAB Lounge
Location: LAB Lounge
Discover the latest advances in AI for video understanding and vision-language-guided robotics in this keynote presentation.
10:00am - 10:45am
Invited talk

Video-Guided Policies for Robotic Manipulation

Cordelia Schmid

Inria, France

Helmholtz Munich: Discovering Future Health
11:15am - 12:45pm
LAB Lounge
Marie Piraud, Zeynep Akata
Location: LAB Lounge
Session Chair: Marie Piraud, Helmholtz Munich
Session Chair: Zeynep Akata, Helmholtz Munich
Researchers from Helmholtz Munich present how advances in genetics, systems biology, bioengineering, and artificial intelligence jointly drive new approaches to understanding disease and developing solutions for future health.

Helmholtz Munich: Discovering Future Health

Eleftheria Zeggini

Helmholtz Munich, Germany



Invited talk

Translational Genomics of Osteoarthritis

Eleftheria Zeggini

Helmholtz Munich, Germany



Invited talk

Biophysics-Informed and AI-Assisted Computation for Translational Optoacoustic Imaging and Sensing

Dominik Jüstel1,2

1: Helmholtz Munich, Germany; 2: Technical University of Munich, Germany



Invited talk

From Multivariate Perturbations to Predictive Models of Human Airway Function

Katzrin Murad, Benedetta Zampa, Weixu Wang, Inti De La Rosa Velázquez, Fabian Theis, Janna Nawroth

Helmholtz Zenter München GmbH, Germany



Invited talk

The Interaction Layer: Why the Virtual Cell Needs Biochemistry

Pascal Falter-Braun

Helmholtz Munich, Germany

Poster Prizes & Closing
12:45pm - 1:00pm
LAB Lounge
Location: LAB Lounge
Session 4b: Infrastructure and tools
9:00am - 10:00am
GERN Stage
Elisabetta Giubilato
Location: GERN Stage
Session Chair: Elisabetta Giubilato, Helmholtz Munich
Choose from expert-led talks running simultaneously to explore AI topics that match your interests.
9:00am - 9:12am

Tiamat: Tiled Image Access, Manipulation, and Analysis Toolkit for Visualization and Analysis of Large Scientific Image Datasets

Christian Schiffer1,2, Alexander Oberstrass1,2, Julia Thönnißen1, Xiao Gui1, Jan-Oliver Kropp1,2,3, Felix Matuschke1, Tobias Salz1, Markus Axer1,4, Katrin Amunts1,3, Timo Dickscheid1,2,5

1: Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany; 2: Helmholtz AI, Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany; 3: Cécile & Oskar Vogt Institute of Brain Research, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; 4: Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany; 5: Institute for Computational Visualistics, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany



9:12am - 9:24am

MLArray: Unifying Machine Learning-Optimized Array Storage and Imaging Metadata

Karol Gotkowski, Kris Dreher

German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany



9:24am - 9:36am

Microsecond Latency Graph Neural Network Inference on Point Clouds

Marc Neu, Torben Ferber, Jürgen Becker

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany



9:36am - 9:48am

GENIUS: An Agentic AI Framework for Autonomous Design and Execution of Simulation Protocols

Celso Rêgo1, Mohammad Soleymanibrojeni2, Wolfgang Wenzel1, Roland Aydin2

1: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; 2: Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon



9:48am - 10:00am

The Road to Exascale: Lessons Learned from Scaling a Scientific AI Workflow to 16,384 GPUs

Christian Schiffer1,2, Julia Thönnißen1, Mathis Bode3, Josh Moore4, Katrin Amunts1,5, Timo Dickscheid1,2,6

1: Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), Germany; 2: Helmholtz AI, Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), Germany; 3: Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany; 4: German BioImaging, Gesellschaft für Mikroskopie und Bildanalyse e.V, Konstanz, Germany; 5: Cécile & Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Germany; 6: Computer Vision, Institute for Computational Visualistics, University of Koblenz, Germany

Coffee break
10:45am - 11:15am
GERN/Itrack
Location: GERN/Itrack
Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm
GERN/Itrack
Location: GERN/Itrack
Registration
8:30am - 9:00am
JOIN Lounge
Location: JOIN Lounge
Pick up your badge and conference materials at the registration desk.