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world of science.

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the potential of imaging in the Helmholtz Association across all research domains and along the entire imaging pipeline.

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leverage and accessibility of the innovative imaging modalities, applications and data treasures.

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the delivery of generalizable imaging solutions.

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Brain tumor in SWIR
Image: Oliver Bruns

HI Project BENIGN Co-Lead Oliver Bruns Awarded for Advancing Medical Imaging

The Helmholtz High Impact Award 2024 was awarded to Oliver Bruns and Ellen Sletten for their research on a new medical imaging technology in the short-wave infrared range. We interviewed Oliver Bruns to learn more about his research and future plans.
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Image: Federica Romanelli

Five New Interdisciplinary Helmholtz Imaging Projects Funded

Starting 2025, five additional Helmholtz Imaging projects will receive funding for cross-cutting and -disciplinary research collaborations. Since the establishment of this call, research teams have collaborated in a total of 35 HI projects to advance imaging across the Helmholtz Association.
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Best Scientific Image Contest 2025: Call for Submissions

Submit your captivating scientific image(s) by February 14, 2025 for a chance to win the prestigious Helmholtz Imaging Best Scientific Image 2025 award, and valuable prizes. The awarding ceremony will take place during the Helmholtz Imaging Conference on June 25-27 in Potsdam.

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Support Hub

The Support Hub is your gateway to the world of Helmholtz Imaging! Simply send an e-mail to support@helmholtz-imaging.de and we will help you out. Any request is welcome, whether it is a question about administrative or imaging-related matters, consulting requests, project support, Helmholtz Imaging Collaborations or access to our portfolio.

CONNECT

Helmholtz Imaging CONNECT is the heart of the Helmholtz Imaging Network. Get to know the imaging experts from the Helmholtz Association, explore the amazing portfolio of cutting-edge instruments from satellites to synchrotrons, dive into the exciting world of imaging applications. Helmholtz Imaging CONNECT facilitates finding partners and collaborators for innovative projects, with just the right complementary expertise necessary to conduct research for grand challenges.

We want you! If you are affiliated to one of the Helmholtz Centers, we invite you to add your profile, your modalities and your applications to the website. Be Helmholtz Imaging!

Collaborations

Struggling with an imaging-related project? Apply for a Helmholtz Imaging Collaboration and tap into the expertise of Helmholtz Imaging! Collaborations enable you to team up with one of our units for an elongated period of time (up to 6 months or even longer) to work on a project together. Whether you require support in (AI-based) image analysis, image reconstruction, annotation, data management, software solutions, addressing inverse problems, developing novel imaging modalities, 3D visualization and more – we are your partner.

Solutions

Helmholtz Imaging Solutions provide software driven strategies for solving common problems across imaging domains and tools. In reality, being aware of a software solution for a scientific problem is often followed by a time-consuming process of figuring out how to install the specific tool and how to precisely use it to reproduce a published result. We provide a framework to unify and simplify this process. Additionally, we curate a catalog of Helmholtz Imaging Solutions developed within our community.


Projects

Helmholtz Imaging Projects are granted to cross-disciplinary research teams that identify innovative research topics at the intersection of imaging and information & data science, initiate cross-cutting research collaborations, and thus underpin the growth of the Helmholtz Imaging network. Discover our outstanding projects or apply for the annual call.

Publications

Helmholtz Imaging captures the world of science. Discover unique data sets, ready-to-use software tools, and top-level research papers.

The platform’s output originates from our research groups as well as from projects funded by us, theses supervised by us and collaborations initiated through us. Altogether, our publications showcase the whole diversity of Helmholtz Imaging.

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Highlight Projects


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Foundations of Supervised Deep Learning for Inverse Problems

Recently, deep learning methods have excelled at various data processing tasks including the solution of ill-posed inverse problems. The goal of this project is to contribute to the theoretical foundation for truly understanding deep networks as regularization techniques which can reestablish a continuous dependence of the solution on the data.
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CLARITY

CineMR-guided ML-driven Breathing Models for Adaptive Radiotherapy

Dose-escalated radiotherapy of lung cancers requires precise monitoring of lesions and nearby organs at risk. Current methods are able to track ultra-central lesions but neglect their deforming vicinity, risking unacceptable toxicity to aortico-pulmonary structures. AI-based anomaly detection and generative AI models can address both requirements in real-time.
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BrainShapes

Laplace-Beltrami shape descriptors of brain structures: Comparative optimization and genetic dissection

The project explores the 3D structure of the human brain by creating a digital 'map' of the brain and examining its unique genetic properties, potentially linking genetic variations to brain disorders.

About us


Group photo of the Helmholtz Imaging team
Image: Knut Sander

Helmholtz Imaging’s mission is to unlock the potential of imaging in the Helmholtz Association. Image data provide a substantial part of data being generated in scientific research. Helmholtz Imaging is the overarching platform to better leverage and make accessible to everyone the innovative modalities, methodological richness, and data treasures of the Helmholtz Association.

For us, imaging is the whole process from data acquisition and data preparation to data management and data analysis. For this reason, we feel that the anchoring at the three host centers DESY, DKFZ and MDC is optimal to serve the entire imaging pipeline and jointly generate the greatest possible added value for the entire association. We are dedicated to making Helmholtz Imaging an internationally visible platform for imaging research.

Helmholtz Imaging is one of five platforms (HIDA, HIFIS, Helmholtz.AI and HMC) initiated by the Helmholtz Information & Data Science Incubator.

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