The goal of this course is to understand the foundations of Big Data and the data that is being generated in the health domain and how the use of technology would help to integrate and exploit all those data to extract meaningful information that can be later used in different sectors of the health domain from physicians to management, from patients to care givers, etc. The course will offer to the student a high-level perspective of the importance of the medical context within the European context, the types of data that are managed in the health (clinical) context, the challenges to be addressed in the mining of unstructured medical data (text and image) as well as the opportunities from the analytical point of view with an introduction to the basics of data analytics field.
Foundations of mining non-structured medical data
Offered By
EIT Digital
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week
11 hour to complete
Introduction
6 videos (Total 54 min), 1 quiz
6 videos
Big Data (I)8m
Big Data (II)7m
Importance of medical domain in the European cost context9m
Big Data in medical domain: opportunities and challenges13m
Data generated in the health domain9m
1 practice exercise
Introduction: evaluation test20m
Week
21 hour to complete
Challenges in unstructured data in health domain
2 videos (Total 19 min), 1 quiz
1 practice exercise
Challenges in unstructured data in health: evaluation test20m
Week
31 hour to complete
NLP in medical domain
6 videos (Total 49 min), 1 quiz
6 videos
Tools and frameworks: general purpose6m
Tools and frameworks: medical domain5m
Vocabularies and ontologies (I)10m
Vocabularies and ontologies (II)8m
EHR analysis: structure, content and challenges11m
1 practice exercise
NLP in medical domain: evaluation test20m
Week
41 hour to complete
Medical Image Analysis
4 videos (Total 50 min), 1 quiz
4 videos
Introduction of digital image basic concepts applied to medical image (II)15m
Structuring image information10m
Case of use: Digital pathology. An example for breast cancer histological images12m
1 practice exercise
Medical image analysis: evaluation test20m
Instructors
Alejandro Rodríguez González
ProfessorComputer Languages and Systems and Software Engineering
Consuelo Gonzalo-Martín
Prof.Computer Languages and Systems and Software Engineering
Ernestina Menasalvas
ProfessorCenter of Biomedicine, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
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