Medical Augmented Reality Summer School 2025

From August 11th to 20th, 2025, the 5^th 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:

Prof. Dr. Philipp Fürnstahl and Prof. Mazda Farshad, MD, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland,
Prof. Dr. Nassir Navab, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany, and
Prof. Dr. Marc Pollefeys, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland,

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 fulfills the medical course requirements and has been registered with swiss orthopedics (16 FB-Credits). The detailed program of the medical hands-on course can be found here.

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.

Application Process

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 will be July 15th, 2025.
Your application will be reviewed, and you will receive feedback as soon as possible after the registration deadline. 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:

400 CHF (without accommodation) / 800 (with accommodation) for technical and medical researchers
5000 CHF for industry participants (without accommodation)

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.

Impressions from MARSS23

MARSS25 Program

Keynote Speakers (Continuously Updated)

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