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