XAI Summer School 2025
Dates: September 1- 5, 2025
Place: Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
From September 1 to 5, 2025, the third edition of the XAI School will take place, building on the success of the previous two fully booked sessions. This specialized program offers participants a hands-on introduction to the latest advancements in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), focusing on practical applications and methodological innovations.
Due to high demand and intense interest, the XAI Summer School provides an excellent opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and students to deepen their understanding of trustworthy and interpretable AI.
🗯️ The program
Introduction to digital pathology
Data and its management in digital pathology, practical examples of how data is accessed for AI models
Handling sensitive data - principles, requirements, best practices
Visualisation - Training of the diagnostic model
Practical training using projects on RatioPath pipelines with RatioViz
🗯️ Registration information
Registration takes place via the form.
You can register until 22nd August. After that time, registration will be closed. The registered participants will receive an informative email regarding the organization and other details of the school by 26th August 2025 at the latest.
🗯️ Fees
Participation is free of charge.
Participants are expected to cover their travel and accommodation expenses.
Read more about the previous editions of the school here:
Tentative Program
Monday [Brno]
- Introduction to digital pathology: advantages and disadvantages of going digital (Heimo Müller)
- Showcase of Graz: how digital pathology practically looks in a fully digital environment (Markus Plass)
- Showcase of Brno: how digital pathology practically looks in hybrid environments (Rudolf Nenutil)
- Introduction on use of AI in digital pathology: from assistance to diagnosis (Heimo Müller - possibly Frederick Klauschen)
- Introduction to explainability in AI in medical contexts: for clinicians (Heimo Müller)
- Data in digital pathology: WSIs, annotations, links to clinical data (Petr Holub/Markus Plass)
- Infrastructure to store and access data in digital pathology (Petr Holub/Markus Plass)
- including backup strategies if you go fully digital
- Data protection in digital pathology (Petr Holub)
- Intro to EMPAIA (Rasmus Kiehl)
Tuesday [Brno]
- Tour de pathology department at MMCI (Rudolf Nenutil/Michal Tichý)
- Use of annotations for AI - supervised and weakly supervised learning (Rudolf Nenutil)
- Consensus building on annotations for supervised learning
- Hands-on with digital pathology data
- Scanning and saving WSIs
- Tutorial on QuPath (Michal Tichý/Markus Plass)
- Tutorial on Halo AP/AI (Markus Plass)
- Tutors: Heimo Müller, Markus Plass, Emilian Jungwirth, Wael Al-Zoughbi, Michal Tichý
- Extraction of structured data from unstructured clinical data using NLP and AI (Aleš Horák)
Wednesday [>>>transfer to Graz]
- Wrap-up of the hands on: presentation of each group, what worked, what didn’t work, lessons learned
>>> afternoon transfer to Graz with direct train
- Dinner in Graz
Thursday [Medical University Graz]
8:45 | Arrival with Coffee
Location: MC2.P.01.019 (SR 57 - Groß)
9:00 - 9:30 | Welcome Session
Speakers: Bernadette Liegl-Atzwanger and Heimo Müller
Location: MC2.P.01.019 (SR 57 - Groß)
9:30 - 10:30 | Tour of Biobank Graz
Organizer: BioBank
Location: Biobank, ZWT 2nd floor
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break
Location: MC2.P.01.019 (SR 57 - Groß)
11:00 - 13:00 | Tour of the Institute of Pathology
Speaker: Marlene Leoni
Location: Medical University Graz, meeting point: Medical University Graz Aula / main entrance
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch
Location: MC2.P.01.019 (SR 57 - Groß)
14:00 - 14:30 | Digital Pathology Tour
Location: MC2.P.01.019 (SR 57 - Groß)
14:30 - 15:15 | Digital Pathology Graz Setup (Infrastructure, System setup)
Speaker: Markus Plass
Location: MC2.P.01.019 (SR 57 - Groß)
15:15 - 15:45 | Break
Location: MC2.P.01.019 (SR 57 - Groß)
15:45 - 16:45 | Meta-Data Standards, MIABIS Digital Pathology Component
Speaker: Wael Al-Zoughbi
Location: MC2.P.01.019 (SR 57 - Groß)
19:00 | Dinner at Restaurant Brandhof
Location: Restaurant Brandhof, Gleisdorfer Gasse 10, 8010 Graz
Friday [Medical University Graz]
9:00 - 10:00 | IVDR certifications
Speaker: Kurt Zatloukal
Location: MC2.P.01.019 (SR 57 - Groß)
10:00 - 10:40 | Upcoming ISO standard for digital pathology
Speaker: Kurt Zatloukal
Location: MC2.P.01.019 (SR 57 - Groß)
10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee Break
Location: MC2.P.01.019 (SR 57 - Groß)
11:00 - 11:45 | QM System in Graz
Speaker: Peter Regitnig
Location: MC2.P.01.019 (SR 57 - Groß)
11:45 - 12:15 | Closing
Speakers: Petr Holub / Heimo Müller
Location: MC2.P.01.019 (SR 57 - Groß)
