Module CS4356-KP06

Medical Information Retrieval (MIR)


Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

irregularly in the summer semester

Credit points

6

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

  • Master Medical Informatics 2019, advanced module, Medical Data Science / Artificial Intelligence

Classes and lectures:

  • Medical Information Retrieval (practical course, 1 SWS)
  • Medical Information Retrieval (exercise, 2 SWS)
  • Medical Information Retrieval (lecture, 2 SWS)

Workload:

  • 40 hours exam preparation
  • 65 hours private studies
  • 75 hours in-classroom work

Contents of teaching:

  • Introduction to Medical Information Retrieval (MIR)
  • Main Components and Classification of MIR Systems
  • Metadata of Medical Information Retrieval Systems
  • Evaluation of Medical Information Retrieval Systems
  • Set Theoretic Model: Boolean Retrieval
  • Set Theoretic Model: Fuzzy Retrieval
  • Vector Space Model: Similarity Measures
  • Vector Space Model: Distance Functions
  • Vector Space Model: Latent Semantic Indexing
  • Probabilistic Model
  • Text-based Retrieval of Medical Information
  • Audio-based Retrieval of Medical Information
  • Image-based Retrieval of Medical Information
  • Demonstrators from Current Research Projects
  • Summary and Conclusions

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

  • Students have an overview of known MIR approaches and are able to motivate their application from the medical perspective.
  • Students know the general approach towards medical information retrieval.
  • Students are able to distinguish medical information retrieval from other related terms.
  • Students know fundamental methods of metadata modelling for medical information retrieval.
  • Students are able to quantitatively evaluate MIR systems and to interpret this evaluation.
  • Students know selected set theoretical approaches for medical information retrieval.
  • Students know selected MIR approaches following the concept of vector space model.
  • Students know selected probabilistic approaches for medical information retrieval.
  • Students know fundamental approaches for text-based medical information retrieval.
  • Students know fundamental approaches for audio-based medical information retrieval.
  • Students know fundamental approaches for image-based medical information retrieval.
  • Students know objectives and function of software systems from selected current research projects related to MIR.
  • Students know selected ethical aspects related medical information retrieval systems.

Grading through:

  • written exam

Responsible for this module:

Literature:

  • Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze : Introduction to Information Retrieval ISBN: 978-0-521-86571-5
  • William Hersh : Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective ISBN: 978-0-387-78702-2

Language:

  • offered only in English

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):
- CS4356-L1: Medical Information Retrieval, written exam, 120min, 100% of module grade.

Last Updated:

21.10.2024