Module CS4352-KP06
Medical Data Science for Assistive Health Technologies (MDS4AGT)
Duration
1 Semester
Turnus of offer
each summer semester
Credit points
6
Course of studies, specific fields and terms:
- Master Medical Informatics 2014, optional subject, Medical Data Science / Artificial Intelligence
- Master Medical Informatics 2019, compulsory, Medical Data Science / Artificial Intelligence
Classes and lectures:
- Medical Data Science for Assistive Health Technologies (practical course, 1 SWS)
- Medical Data Science for Assistive Health Technologies (exercise, 2 SWS)
- Medical Data Science for Assistive Health Technologies (lecture, 2 SWS)
Workload:
- 40 hours exam preparation
- 65 hours private studies
- 75 hours in-classroom work
Contents of teaching:
- Introduction to Medical Data Science for Assistive Health Technologies
- General Approach to Human Activity Recognition
- Multiple Sensor Integration and Synchronisation
- Feature Learning from Multimodal Sensor Data
- Supervised Classification of Multimodal Sensor Data
- General Approach to Indoor Localisation
- Statistical Representation of Multimodal Sensor Data
- Recursive Probability Density Estimation
- Particle Filtering and State Classification
- General Approach to Sleep Lab Data Analysis
- Multimodal Time Series Data Augmentation
- Transfer Learning for Time Series Classification
- Explainable Machine Learning
- Demonstrators from Current Research Projects
- Summary and Conclusions
Qualification-goals/Competencies:
- Students have an overview of known assistive health technologies and are able to motivate their application from the medical perspective.
- Students know the general approach to human activity recognition.
- Students know selected approaches of multiple sensor integration and synchronisation.
- Students know selected feature learning methods and are able to implement them in a programming language.
- Students know selected classification algorithms for multimodal sensor data are able to implement them in a programming language.
- Students know the general approach to indoor localisation.
- Students know selected models for statistical representation of multimodal sensor data and are able to implement them in a programming language.
- Students know the theory behind the recursive probability density estimation.
- Students know the particle filtering approach and are able to implement it in a programming language.
- Students know the general approach aiming at the interpretation of data recorded in a sleep lab.
- Students know selected methods for multimodal time series data augmentation and are able to implement them in a programming language.
- Students know selected transfer learning methods for time series classification and are able to implement it in a programming language.
- Students know selected methods of explainable machine learning.
- Students know the objectives and function of software systems from selected current medical data science research projects.
- Students know the societal relevance of assistive health technologies.
Grading through:
- Oral examination
Responsible for this module:
Literature:
- Peter J. Brockwell and Richard A. Davis : Introduction to Time Series and Forecasting ISBN: 978-3-319-29852-8
- Marcin Grzegorzek : Sensor Data Understanding ISBN: 978-3-8325-4633-5
- Andrew R. Webb : Statistical Pattern Recognition ISBN: 978-0-470-68228-9
- Sergios Theodoridis and Konstantinos Koutroumbas : Pattern Recognition ISBN: 978-1-597-49272-0
- Heinrich Niemann : Klassifikation von Mustern ISBN: 978-3-642-47517-7
- Marcin Grzegorzek : Appearance-Based Statistical Object Recognition Including Color and Context Modeling ISBN: 978-3-8325-1588-1
- Muhammad Adeel Nisar : Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition for Assistive Health Technologies ISBN: 978-3-8325-5571-9
- Frédéric Li : Deep Learning for Time-series Classification Enhanced by Transfer Learning Based on Sensor Modality Discrimination ISBN: 978-3-8325-5396-8
- Frank Ebner : Smartphone-Based 3D Indoor Localization and Navigation ISBN: 978-3-8325-5232-9
- Xinyu Huang : Sensor-Based Sleep Stage Classification Using Deep Learning ISBN: 978-3-8325-5617-4
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 exercises and pracitcal tasks as specified at the beginning of the semester.
Module Exam(s):
- CS4352-L1: Medical Data Science for Assistive Health Technologies, oral exam, 100% of module grade.
Last Updated:
29.09.2025