From August 11th to 20th, 2025, the 5th edition of the Medical Augmented Reality Summer School will be held at
Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland,
again bringing together the world's experts in Medical AR, clinicians,
companies and talented academic researchers from all around the world, foster cooperation, and push the boundaries of Medical Augmented Reality.
The application will be open to researchers from academia, medical professionals and students, as well as industry engineers.
The focus of this year's summer school will be the connection of Medical AR and Surgical Data Science. MARSS25 will be organized for the first time by a consortium of scientists and clinicians from three institutions
which are among the leading centers for cutting-edge research in Medical Augmented Reality, Computer Vision, and Computer Assisted Surgery:
In the MARSS25 hackathon, interdisciplinary teams consisting of participants from research, industry, and clinic will develop novel Medical Augmented Reality systems,
supported by experienced surgeons and AR experts.
For MARSS25 and the MARSS25 hackathon, we will have access to our translational center for surgery, the OR-X,
a highly technological equipped research and training infrastructure where surgical innovation and education can happen without patient burden.
For medical professionals, we will for the first time offer a hands-on surgical training course at OR-X in parallel to the technical program that includes the training of
surgical techniques using cutting-edge computer assisted surgery systems such as surgical navigation systems, endoscopic procedures, and robot-assisted surgery on bone models. The medical hands-on course will comply with official medical course requirements.
We actively promote diversity in terms of gender and region and provide a free registration award for selected students.
This event is endorsed by the MICCAI society and covered by the MICCAI Code of Conduct.
Please submit your application through the form below. The official registration deadline for technical researchers has been extended to June 27th, 2025. The deadline for the medical track including the hands-on surgical training course at OR-X has been extended to July 15th, 2025.
Your application will be reviewed, and you will receive feedback by the end of June 2025.
In case of acceptance, we will send you a personal link to finalize your registration. Your definitive participation is confirmed with the payment of the conference fee which will be:
MEDICAL PARTICIPANTS ONLY: Please indicate in the application form if you are interested to participate in the medical hands-on training course taking place at OR-X from August 11 - 13.
The participation in the medical hands-on training course requires an additional course registration fee of 300 CHF.
For questions please contact marss@balgrist.ch.
Prof. Dr. Nassir Navab
Head of the Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality, Department of Computer Science, TU Munich
Prof. Dr. Philipp Fürnstahl
Professor in Orthopedic Computer Science
Head of ROCS (Research in Orthopedic Computer Science), Balgrist, University Hospital, University of Zurich.
Prof. Dr. Marc Pollefeys
Director Mixed Reality and AI Lab at Microsoft and Full Professor in the Institute for Visual Computing of the Dept. of Computer Science, ETH Zürich
Prof. Dr. Hongbin Liu
Professor and Director, Centre for AI and Robotics, Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Prof. Dr. Qi Dou
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, (by courtesy) T Stone Robotics Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Speidel
Professor of Translational Surgical Oncology
German Cancer Research Center, Dresden, Germany
Prof. Dr. Roy Eagleson
Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Western Ontario, Associate Scientist at the Robarts Research Institute, Scientist and Principal Investigator at CSTAR, Canada
Prof. Sandrine De Ribaupierre, MD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Prof. Greg Osgood, MD
Chief, Orthopaedic Trauma, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, JHU Baltimore
Prof. Dr. Dieter Schmalstieg
Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Visual Computing, Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems (VIS), Visualization Research Center (VISUS), University of Stuttgart, Germany
Prof. Dr. Siyu Tang
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Group Lead Computer Vision and Learning Group (VLG) at the Institute of Visual Computing, ETH Zurich
Prof. Dr. Nicolas Padoy
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Strasbourg and Director of Computer Science and AI Research at IHU Strasbourg, France
Prof. Dirk Wilhelm, MD
Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, Klinikums rechts der Isar, TU Munich, Germany
Prof. Dr. Tinashe Mutsvangwa
Professor at the Department of Data Science, IMT Atlantique, Nantes, France
Prof. Dr. Alejandro Martin-Gomez
Assistant research professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty, University of Arkansas, USA
