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