Thank you to everyone who participated in the **iMED Challenge 2026**! We are pleased to announce our final podium teams. **Pose Estimation** 🥇 **ccg_dgist** — 2.193 mm mean ATE RMSE 🥈 **sdu_imed** — 2.217 mm 🥉 **m-AIM** — 2.223 mm **Deformable Novel View Synthesis** 🥇 **m-AIM** — 21.806 PSNR 🥈 **Uniandes-Unal-26** — 21.470 PSNR 🥉 **Xidian Squad One** — 21.334 PSNR The prizes for each task are **\$750 for 1st, \$450 for 2nd, and \$300 for 3rd place**, sponsored by Intuitive Surgical. Congratulations to all of our winners, and thank you to every team that submitted methods to the challenge. ### EndoVis Challenge Day The iMED Challenge results will be presented during the **EndoVis Challenge Day at MICCAI 2026 on 27 September in Strasbourg**. During the session, we will: * introduce the iMED dataset and challenge tasks; * present the final results and rankings; * give an overview of the submitted approaches; and * hear short presentations from the **first-place team in each task**. We have contacted the presenting teams directly with further instructions. All challenge participants are very welcome to attend the session in Strasbourg. Thank you again for making the first iMED Challenge possible, and we look forward to seeing you at MICCAI! ### Challenge Paper We will be preparing a joint iMED Challenge paper summarizing the challenge results and submitted methods. The 15 teams with a valid leaderboard entry that also submitted a structured method report will be included in the paper. Once the draft is ready, I will circulate it to all contributors for review and revision before submission. Please keep an eye out for this in the coming months, as we will ask each team to check that their method and contributor information are represented correctly. If no changes are requested by an emailed review deadline, we will treat the circulated version as approved for submission.