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