On the 11th of March, both the Bordeaux and Toulouse Imaging Facilities collaborated to organise a mini-symposium dedicated to machine learning. Artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning are terms that are increasingly used, but what do they actually mean?
More than 130 participants from all over France came to Toulouse with those questions in mind, looking for answers. Thanks to our 9 international speakers, we have been able to get a grasp of the hidden meaning of those (not so) new methods, how to apply them to microscopy data and what their specific drawbacks are. A more private event took place on 12th March: thanks to Dominik Kutra, developer of the ilastik software, 16 facility staff members have been trained in this fantastic software, easing the process of image segmentation using the Random Forest approach (amongst others). During this “train the trainers” session, 12 of our colleagues from all over France were able to follow along remotely.
By the way, if you’re asking yourself how the enclosed image was generated, have a look at the ImageJ plugin “FigureJ”.
