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InterSurge 2025: IML showcases “AI in medicine”- projects in the IML showroom 

On November 21 and 22, 2025, the interdisciplinary congress InterSurge on the digital future of medicine, took place at the event location CORE in Oldenburg. Experts from medicine, science, technology, business, and politics came together to discuss new impulses for a sustainable healthcare system. Keynotes and presentations offered practical insights into current developments in AI, sustainability, and digital transformation. In workshops and hands-on sessions, participants discussed specific applications from areas such as AR, VR, and robotics—accompanied by live demonstrations and interactive formats. 

The Interactive Machine Learning team presented its latest research in the CORE  IML showroom through video demonstrations, offering visitors insights into innovative projects, including: 

  • Ophthalmo AI – A Clinical Decision Support System to support ophthalmologists in the treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy and Age-related Macular Degeneration 
  • Mulitlayered Clinical Semantic Annotation – advanced medical data analysis  
  • CBM-RAG – an interactive system that leverages Explainable AI (XAI) and Multi-Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to enable transparent and trustworthy radiology report generation.  

InterSurge 2025 was a very successful and well-attended congress, highlighting the strong relevance of medical AI solutions. 

Successful completion of the lighthouse project Ophthalmo-AI

After three years, the Ophthalmo-AI project, which focused on intelligent, cooperative medical decision support in ophthalmology, was concluded in mid-March.

Four demonstrators (including an intelligent learning tool to support image diagnoses and a dashboard to support treatment decisions in therapy) were developed as part of the project and were evaluated very positively in the two participating clinics (Augenklinik Sulzbach, Augenzentrum am St. Franziskus-Hospital Münster).

In addition, two Master’s theses were completed as part of the project, with one completed and one planned employment of the students as IML employees in Oldenburg and Saarbrücken. Several publications have been published or submitted to AI and medical conferences, and a new project on active learning with Google Germany as a partner is based on the content of Ophthalmo-AI.

Hasan Md Tusfiqur Alam and Md Abdul Kadir from IML show project contents from Ophthalmo-AI to an audience. Photo by: Felix Brüggemann, Copyright: Google.