Module CS4353-KP07

Medical Data Science (MDS4HAT)


Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

beginning each winter semester

Credit points

7

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

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Classes and lectures:

  • CS4353-Ü: Medical Data Science (exercise, 4 SWS)
  • CS4353-V: Medical Data Science (lecture, 2 SWS)

Workload:

  • 50 hours exam preparation
  • 70 hours private studies
  • 90 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 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:

  • exercises, project, oral or written exam

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

Language:

  • German or English

Notes:

Admission requirements for taking the module:
- None

Admission requirements for participation in module examination(s):
- Successful completion of exercise

Module Exam(s):
- CS4353-L1: Medical Data Science, written exam, 90min, 100% module grade

Last Updated:

30.09.2025