Our Portfolio
Helmholtz Imaging empowers and supports scientists in all aspects of imaging, on different occasions, at any point in their career and at all levels.
To gain an overview of the broad spectrum of novel imaging modalities and make it easy to find the experts you are looking for we created the community network Helmholtz Imaging CONNECT. You can get in touch with us via our Support Hub – the gateway for all imaging-related requests be it support for data handling, consultation regarding software or methods, or research issues.
For more in-depth collaborations, apply for Helmholtz Imaging Collaborations to work together with us on mid-term projects striving to find solutions to challenging research questions. You will benefit from our broad knowledge on the rich pool of methods that enable state-of-the-art solutions tailored to your problems.
Financial funding can be requested through our annual Helmholtz Imaging Project calls for interdisciplinary collaborative research projects. Our research activities span the entire imaging pipeline – from data acquisition and data preparation to data management and data analysis – and are driven by our three dedicated Research Units.
The entire output will be made available to the community. Resources such as software and data sets are available as easy-to-use open-source Helmholtz Imaging Solutions, gained expertise and research results will be shared in seminars, schools and workshops and the early engagement of external partners will benefit society. We also offer training opportunities to develop skills in the realm of imaging science.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Helmholtz Imaging provides consultation regarding existing software or methods, and make these resources available as easy-to-use Helmholtz Imaging Solutions to standardize and simplify the process of finding the right software to your research questions. We also develop, provide and maintain our own open source software solutions, which address the most challenging research questions in imaging science. Contact us if you need support using one of our software solutions!
Helmholtz Imaging’s research covers the entire imaging pipeline, from data acquisition, data preparation, and data management to data analysis. Three Research Units specialize in key areas along this pipeline: model-based inverse design, integrative imaging data science, and image analysis & benchmarking. United by cutting-edge research and broad imaging expertise, our Research Units offer an excellent foundation for research collaborations and state-of-the-art imaging solutions.
Helmholtz Imaging’s publications reflect this expertise, featuring unique data sets, ready-to-use software tools, and research papers from our Research Units, collaborations, and projects.
JIMM: Geophysical Joint Inversion for Accurate Brain Myelin Mapping
The aim of this project is to develop a method for clinically diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases. The content of myelin in the brain – a substance that becomes degraded in diseases – will be quantified using methods from geophysics in order to facilitate early detection and treatment
BRLEMMM: Breaking resolution limit of electron microscopy for magnetic materials
A new method will make it possible to take images of the magnetic properties of materials under the electron microscope and to correlate these properties with their atomic structure. In order to achieve high resolution, a special algorithm must be developed to compute the magnetic properties from the microscope data.
Hyper 3D-AI: Artificial Intelligence for 3D multimodal point cloud classification
The aim is to develop an artificial intelligence that can achieve the fusion of two-dimensional data with three-dimensional information. Based on this, the software would simultaneously be able to recognise image characteristics as well as the spatial relationships between different objects.
Avanti: X-ray tomoscopy of dynamic manufacturing processes
How can the manufacturing processes of materials be mapped at the smallest level? How do you train an artificial intelligence to analyze these processes automatically? That’s the focus of the Avanti project, which aims to improve X-ray tomoscopy – the imaging and quantification of three-dimensional images of very fast-moving processes.
HIT Permafrost: The Hidden Image of Thawing Permafrost
The project aims to develop a method for determining just how extensively thaw processes have already progressed in permafrost regions. The machine learning approach to be developed will be used to analyse radar images from aircraft in order to learn more about the properties of the subsurface permafrost.
Helmholtz Imaging Projects provide funding for cross-cutting research collaborations on innovative research topics in the field of imaging and data science.
Interdisciplinary teams systematically find and exploit synergies across modalities and research questions, highlighting common challenges and generalizing solutions across the Helmholtz community. The first projects started in 2020. Discover these outstanding and fascinating research projects with us or become a part of Helmholtz Imaging Projects and apply for your own project.