IHU Strasbourg and the CAMMA Team Stand Out at MICCAI 2025, the Leading Conference for Research in Digital Surgery.
CAMMA (Computer Assisted Medical and Minimally-invasive Applications), a joint team between IHU Strasbourg and the ICube laboratory of the University of Strasbourg, made a strong showing at the 28th edition of the MICCAI Conference (Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Interventions), held in Daejeon, South Korea, from September 23 to 27, 2025. Led by Prof. Nicolas Padoy, Scientific Director and Head of Computer Science and AI Research at IHU Strasbourg, CAMMA has risen to the top tier of global research teams in surgical data science and artificial intelligence.
An Exemplary Scientific Output
Six articles were accepted and presented at the main conference following a highly selective process (overall acceptance rate of 29%), confirming CAMMA’s scientific excellence. This year, the articles focused on four themes:
- Multimodal and weakly supervised learning,
- 3D modeling of surgical scenes,
- Recognition of surgical activities,
- AI applied to gynecological oncology.
One of the articles was awarded the MICCAI 2025 Young Scientist Award.
At the crossroads of research and entrepreneurship
The innovative momentum at IHU Strasbourg has once again been demonstrated with the creation of a spin-off based on CAMMA’s work, Scialytics, which is developing an artificial intelligence ecosystem designed to measure and reduce surgical risks. Scialytics was awarded second prize in the Startup Village Pitch Competition, recognizing its potential for clinical, technological, and entrepreneurial impact.
CLINICCAI – A successful fifth edition
Created in 2021 during the MICCAI congress in Strasbourg by Prof. Nicolas Padoy, CLINICCAI (Clinical Translation of Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention) has established itself as a key event of the congress.
The 2025 edition once again attracted a large audience of researchers, clinicians, and industry professionals, confirming its role as an essential platform for exchanges between science, technology, and clinical practice.
Dr. Pietro Mascagni, clinical research advisor specializing in artificial intelligence and medical informatics at IHU Strasbourg, spoke at the “From Idea to Product” panel, sharing his experience in transforming technological innovations into concrete clinical solutions.
Major international challenges and workshops
The IHU and CAMMA have also contributed to several major initiatives:
- SAGES Critical View of Safety (CVS) Lighthouse Challenge, organized in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the prestigious Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES). This competition mobilized the global surgical AI community around a single goal: to improve the automated assessment of critical safety views in laparoscopic cholecystectomy, with record numbers: 1,000 surgical videos from 24 countries, 67 contributing surgeons, 5,400 annotations produced, and 35 methods proposed by 14 teams.
- The MICCAI CREATE workshop, dedicated to clinical robotics and embodied artificial intelligence, was a highlight with a presentation by Nicolas Padoy: “Harnessing the Power of Vision and Language to Improve Surgical Safety.”
These achievements illustrate the mission of the IHU Strasbourg and CAMMA at MICCAI 2025: to bring together academic research excellence, technological innovation, and clinical impact to transform the surgery of tomorrow.
Ressources :
- CLINICCAI 2025 : https://conferences.miccai.org/2025/en/CLINICAL-DAY.html
- SAGES CVS Lighthouse Challenge : https://www.cvschallenge.org/
- MICCAI CREATE Workshop “Efficient Medical AI”
“Harnessing the Power of Vision and Language to Improve Surgical Safety” :
https://sites.google.com/view/create-miccai-2025 - AE-CAI | CARE | OR 2.0 : https://workshops.ap-lab.ca/aecai2025/program/
- Scialytics : https://www.scialytics.io/
