AIBIA 2025

The 2025 edition of the Artificial Intelligence for Bio-oriented Imaging Analysis (AIBIA) Conference took place at TivoliVredenburg on Wednesday, May 6, 2025.

Speakers

Prof. dr. Sanne Abeln
Group leader AI Technology for Life
Utrecht University - Utrecht - The Netherlands
Keynote speaker
Prof. dr. Boudewijn Lelieveldt
Group leader Clinical and Experimental Image Processing
LUMC - Leiden - The Netherlands
Keynote speaker
Dr. Stephan Saalfeld
Group leader Computation and Theory
hhmi Janelia Research Campus - Ashburn (Virginia) - USA
Keynote speaker
Prof. dr. Mauricio Reyes
Group leader Medical Image Analysis
University of Bern - Bern - Switzerland
Keynote speaker

Time

Activity

09:00

Arrival

09:30

Opening
Nico van den Berg (UMCU) and Sam van Beuningen (UMCU)

09:40

Educational keynote
Sanne Abeln (Utrecht University - The Netherlands)
AI essentials for Bio-oriented Scientists

10:15

Application keynote
Boudewijn Lelieveldt (Leiden University Medical Center - The Netherlands)
ManiVault Studio: visual analytics framework for analyzing high-dimensional imaging data

10:50

Coffee & Posters

11:15

Parallel Session M1

Speaker - Affiliation	Title
Rogier van der Sluijs – UMC Utrecht	Diagnostically Lossless Compression of Medical Images
Surya Gayet – Utrecht University	What is that thing in the distance? Scene context guides object recognition in human and machine vision
Jelmer van Lune – UMC Utrecht	Retrospective relaxometry from conventional contrast-weighted MRI by physics-informed deep learning
Floris Reinders - UMC Utrecht	Using AI models in the clinic for individual elective lymph node irradiation

Parallel Session B1

Speaker - Affiliation	Title
Aniek Stokkermans – Hubrecht Institute	Combining AI & interactive annotation tools for 3D cell segmentation and tracking
Bas Rodenburg – Utrecht University	Using AI to track animal behaviour and monitor animal welfare
Sanne de Weerd - Genmab	AI for Morphological Profiling of Therapeutic Antibody Combinations using Cell Painting
Vincent Hellebrekers - Utrecht University	AI in cell-biology imaging

12:30

Lunch & Posters

13:45

Parallel Session M2

Speaker - Affiliation	Title
Aniek Eijpe – Utrecht University	Disentangled and Interpretable Multimodal Attention Fusion for Cancer Survival Prediction
Coert van Gemeren – HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht	Learning from images in Life Sciences for practical applications: challenges and opportunities
Ryanne Offenberg – UMC Utrecht	Disentangling cognitive impairment using eXplainable AI
Nienke Bakx – Datacation	AI in healthcare: from promise to practice - challenges and solutions

Parallel Session B2

Speaker - Affiliation	Title
Josh Andres – Utrecht University	Round-the-Clock Monkey Monitoring: Automated Video monitoring of group housed macaques
Bram Bosch - UMC Utrecht	AI based label free predictions for primary airway epithelial cell assays
Sammy Florczak - UMC Utrecht	Adaptive and Context-Aware Volumetric Printing
Basten Snoek - Utrecht University	LettuceSee, Machine vision in Crop research

14:45

Coffee & Posters

15:30

Research keynote
Stephan Saalfeld (Janelia Research Campus - USA)
Scalable open-source methods and tools for large 3D light and electron microscopy

16:05

Research keynote
Mauricio Reyes (University of Bern - Switzerland)
Why and how of XAI for Medical Imaging?

16:40

Poster Prize & Closing by Paul Coffer (Utrecht Life Sciences vice-dean)

17:00

Drinks

Venue

The AIBIA conference will take place at TivoliVredenburg Utrecht which is located in the centre, next to Utrecht Central Station, making it very easy to reach by train. It is a five-minute walk from the train station to TivoliVredenburg.

Impression of AIBIA 2024 - Jaarbeurs

photos by Chantal Rison