Stephan Saalfeld is interested in designing and developing methods and software for scalable automatic and semiautomatic image analysis. Saalfeld and his team aim to generate rich reconstructions of biological nervous systems such as that of Drosophila melanogaster, coping with compromised data from complementary imaging modalities such as electron microscopy and confocal microscopy.
Centered at the Janelia Research Campus, AI@HHMI will embed AI systems throughout every stage of the scientific process in labs across HHMI over the next 10 years. Janelia’s COSEM Project Team has created a set of tools to make annotated 3D images of cells, showing the relationships between different organelles.