Module CS4374-KP06

Medical Deep Learning (MDL)


Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each summer semester

Credit points

6

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

  • Master MES 2020, optional subject, computer science / electrical engineering
  • Master Robotics and Autonomous Systems 2019, optional subject, Elective
  • Master Medical Informatics 2014, optional subject, medical computer science
  • Master MES 2014, optional subject, computer science / electrical engineering
  • Master Medical Informatics 2019, advanced module, medical computer science

Classes and lectures:

  • Medical Deep Learning (exercise, 2 SWS)
  • Medical Deep Learning (lecture, 2 SWS)

Workload:

  • 60 hours in-classroom work
  • 80 hours private studies
  • 40 hours exam preparation

Contents of teaching:

  • Cardiac Healthcare:
  • ECG signal analysis for arrhythmia detection or sleep apnea and for mobile low-cost devices
  • MRI sequence analysis for anatomical segmentation and temporal modelling
  • Multimodal Clinical Case Retrieval / Prediction:
  • Pathology and Semantic Image Retrieval and Localisation
  • Analysis of text / natural language (radiology reports/study articles) for multimodal data mining in Electronic Health Records (EHR)
  • Computer Aided Detection and Disease Classification:
  • CT Lung nodule detection for cancer screening with data augmentation and transfer learning
  • Weakly-supervised abnormality detection and biomarker discovery
  • Interpretable and reliable deep learning systems
  • Human interaction and correction within deep learning models
  • Visualisation of uncertainty and internally learned representations
  • Deep Learning Concepts, Architectures and Hardware
  • Convolutional Neural Networks, Layers, Deep Residual Learning
  • Losses, Derivatives, Large-scale Stochastic Optimisation
  • Directed Acyclic Graph Networks, Generative Adversarial Networks
  • Cloud Computing, GPUs, Low Precision Computing, DL Frameworks

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

  • Students know the importance of data security, patient anonymisation and ethics for clinical studies involving sensitive data
  • They know methods and tools to collect, preprocess, store and annotate large datasets for deep learning from medical data
  • They have an in-depth understanding of deep / convolutional neural networks for general data (signals / text / images) processing, their learning process and evaluation of their performance on unseen data
  • They understand the principles of weakly-supervised learning, transfer learning, concept discovery and generative adversarial networks
  • They know how to explore learned feature representations for retrieval and visualisation of high-dimensional abstract data
  • They can implement modern network architectures in DL frameworks and are able to adapt and extend them to given problems in medicine
  • They have a broad overview of current applications of deep learning in medicine in both research and clinical practice and can transfer their knowledge to newly emerging domains

Grading through:

  • Oral examination

Responsible for this module:

Literature:

  • Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville : Deep Learning The MIT Press

Language:

  • English, except in case of only German-speaking participants

Notes:

Admission requirements for taking the module:
- None

Admission requirements for taking module examination(s):
- Successful completion of exercise assignments and programming tasks as specified at the beginning of the semester.

Module Exam(s):
- CS4374-L1 Medical Deep Learning, , oral examination.

Last Updated:

24.09.2021