WG 12 – Image Visualization and Analysis

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WG 12 – Objectives

The Image Analysis and Visualization Working Group (WG 12) will provide guidelines for scientists to publish accessible and understandable images, including their reproducible processing and analysis procedures. Publishing of light microscopy image data should include key information about image acquisition (Link:WG11), image reconstruction, processing and analysis, as well as image visualisation and image data availability (safeguarding e.g. in repositories).

WG12 will provide a white-paper, guidelines, training materials, teaching slides with example images, and an application of the guidelines in a video-tutorial. WG12 has members from academic and corporate research, and publishing. Members are active in image analysis, image publishing, image software design, and data visualisation.

WG 12 – Co-Chairs

WG 12 - Latest News

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On Friday, 14.03.2025, Helena Jambor and Christopher Schmied of Quarep-LiMi WG12 were honored at the annual award ceremony of the Einstein Foundation Berlin, held at the Museum Bode in Berlin. They received the Einstein Foundation Early Career Award for promoting research quality with their project: “PixelQuality - Best practices for publishing images.”

The Early Career Award comes with a prize of EUR 100,000. Other award recipients included the platform PubPeer for the Institutional Award and Elisabeth Bik for the Individual Award.

In his keynote speech the former Minister of Education, Culture, and Science of the Netherlands, Robbert Dijkgraaf reflected on Einstein's career and the importance of freedom of science. In their greetings, Governing Mayor of Berlin Kai Wegner and Senator of Research, Health, and Care Ina Czyborra highlighted the significance of research for Berlin.

On March 13, 2025, Einstein Foundation Early Career Award winners Helena Jambor and Christopher Schmied, along with Elisabeth Bik and Brandon Stell, will host a colloquium titled "From Detection to Prevention: Improving the Scientific Publication Record Through Error Detection, Post-Publication Peer Review, and Image Guidelines."
The event will be available both online and in person. For more information and to register, visit: https://www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/events/award/2024-einstein-foundation-award-winners-colloquium

The Einstein Early Career Award for Promoting Quality in Research celebrates outstanding early career researchers who are pioneering improvements in the quality, transparency, and reproducibility of science. Among this year’s inspiring finalists were Helene Jambor and Christopher Schmied, who took home the Award for their innovative work on guidelines to elevate the publication and analysis of scientific images. Their efforts are setting new standards in research and empowering scientists to create clearer, more reliable discoveries!

 

Upcoming meeting: 25th July 2025, 4:00 pm
Last meeting: 24th April 2025, 4:00 pm

A “Community-developed checklists for publishing images and image analyses” has been published in Nature Methods.

You can access the publication here.

36th meeting, 24th of April 2025

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24/04/2025 @ 4:00 PM (CET/CEST)

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35th meeting, 27th of March 2025

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27/03/2025 @ 4:00 PM (CET/CEST)

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34th meeting, 27th of February 2025

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27/02/2025 @ 4:00 PM (CET/CEST)

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33rd meeting, 23rd of January 2025

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23/01/2025 @ 4:00 PM (CET/CEST)

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32nd meeting, 28th of November 2024

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28/11/2024 @ 4:00 PM (CET/CEST)

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31st meeting, 24th of October 2024

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24/10/2024 @ 4:00 PM (CET/CEST)

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30th meeting, 26th of September 2024

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26/09/2024 @ 4:00 PM (CET/CEST)

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29th meeting, 25th of July 2024

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25/07/2025 @ 4:00 PM (CET/CEST)

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28th meeting, 27th of June 2024

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27/06/2024 @ 4:00 PM (CET/CEST)

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27th meeting, 23rd of May 2024

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23/05/2024 @ 4:00 PM (CET/CEST)

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