Module CS3350-KP06
Medical Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (MDS)
Duration
1 Semester
Turnus of offer
each winter semester
Credit points
6
Course of studies, specific fields and terms:
- Bachelor Medical Informatics 2014, optional subject, medical computer science
- Bachelor Medical Informatics 2019, compulsory, Medical Data Science / Artificial Intelligence
Classes and lectures:
- Medical Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (exercise, 2 SWS)
- Medical Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (practical course, 1 SWS)
- Medical Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (lecture, 2 SWS)
Workload:
- 40 hours exam preparation
- 65 hours private studies
- 75 hours in-classroom work
Contents of teaching:
- Introduction
- General Approach to Information Retrieval (Scenario 1: Medical Information Retrieval)
- Annotation-based Approach to Information Retrieval (Scenario 1: Medical Information Retrieval)
- Content-based Approach to Information Retrieval (Scenario 1: Medical Information Retrieval)
- Performance of Systems for Information Retrieval (Scenario 1: Medical Information Retrieval)
- General Approach to Supervised Classification (Scenario 2: Intraoperative Patient Monitoring)
- Extraction, Selection and Transformation of Features (Scenario 2: Intraoperative Patient Monitoring)
- Linear Classification (Scenario 2: Intraoperative Patient Monitoring)
- Statistical Classification (Scenario 2: Intraoperative Patient Monitoring)
- General Approach to Unsupervised Classification (Scenario 3: Population Medicine)
- Sequential Clustering (Scenario 3: Population Medicine)
- Hierarchical Clustering (Scenario 3: Population Medicine)
- Fuzzy Clustering (Scenario 3: Population Medicine)
- Demonstrators from Current Research Projects
- Summary and Conclusions
Qualification-goals/Competencies:
- Students know the term Medical Data Science and are able to define and clearly distinguish it from other related terms.
- Students know the concept of the automated information retrieval.
- Students know the annotation-based approach to information retrieval and are able to implement it in the medical context using a programming language.
- Students know the content-based approach to information retrieval and are able to implement it in the medical context using a programming language.
- Students know evaluation strategies for information retrieval platforms and are able to assess the performance of such systems.
- Students know the concept of supervised classification.
- Students know selected approaches to feature extraction, selection, and transformation and are able to implement it in the medical context using a programming language.
- Students know the linear classification approach and are able to implement it in the medical context using a programming language.
- Students know the statistical classification approach and are able to implement it in the medical context using a programming language.
- Students know the concept of unsupervised learning (clustering).
- Students know the sequential clustering approach and are able to implement it in the medical context using a programming language.
- Students know the hierarchical clustering approach and are able to implement it in the medical context using a programming language.
- Students know the fuzzy clustering approach and are able to implement it in the medical context using a programming language.
- Students know the objectives and function of software systems from selected current medical data science research projects.
- Students know the societal relevance of methods for automated data analysis in the medicine.
Grading through:
- Written or oral exam as announced by the examiner
Responsible for this module:
Literature:
- Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze : Introduction to Information Retrieval ISBN: 9780521865715
- Sergios Theodoridis and Konstantinos Koutroumbas : Pattern Recognition ISBN: 9781597492720
Language:
- German and English skills required
Notes:
Admission requirements for taking the module:- None
Admission requirements for participation in module examination(s):
- Successful completion of smaller programming projects as specified at the beginning of the semester.
Module Exam(s):
- CS3350-L1: Medical Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, written exam, 120min, 100% of the module grade.
Last Updated:
29.09.2025