Course Catalog 2007-2008

LTT-4506 MEDICAL INFORMATICS LABORATORY, 4 cr
Medical Informatics Laboratory

Courses persons responsible
Jari Viik

Lecturers
Jari Viik

Implementations
  Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Period 5 Summer
Exercise work - - - 40 h/per 40 h/per -
(Timetable for academic year 2007-2008)

Objectives
To make students in-depth familiar with the methods in medical informatics.

Content
Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Medical image analysis.        
2. Digital analysis of the ECG.        
3. Statistical methods in patient material.       

Requirements for completing the course
Accepted laboratory exercises.

Evaluation criteria for the course

  • Each laboratory is assessed with 0-2 points. Receiving 2 points from every work, totally 6 points, there is no need to participate in examination. Received points will be taking into account in examination.

  • Used assessment scale is passed / failed

    • Prerequisites
    Code Course Credits M/R
    LTT-1806 LTT-1806 Biomedical Engineering Laboratory Course 4 Mandatory
    LTT-4016 LTT-4016 Introduction to Medical Informatics 5 Recommendable
    LTT-4106 LTT-4106 Processing of Physiological Signals 5 Recommendable
    LTT-4206 LTT-4206 Processing of Medical Images 5 Recommendable

    Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

    Remarks

  • Partial passing of course must be in connection with the same round of implementation.

    • Distance learning

  • ITC utilized during the course

    • - In information distribution via homepage, newsgroups or mailing lists, e.g. current issues, timetables
    - In compiling teaching material, particularly for online use or other electronic media
    - In compiling exercise, group or laboratory work
    - In distributing and/or returning exercise work, material etc
    - In exams or assessment of knowledge and skill/learning
    - The course utilizes a learning platform, which? Moodle

  • Estimate as a percentage of the implementation of the course

    • - Contact teaching: 10 %
    - Distance learning: 5 %
    - Proportion of a student's independent study: 85 %

    Scaling
    Methods of instructionHours
    Lectures 6
    Laboratory assignments 106

    Study materials
    Scaling of methods of instruction icludes the use of following study material:
    Laboratory instructions
    Total sum 112

    Additional information related to course
    LTT-4506 replaces the course LTT-4500.
    LTT-4506 is alternative with LTT-2506.

    Correspondence of content
    LTT-4500 Medical Informatics Laboratory

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    Last modified 27.02.2007
    Modified byJari Viik