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Opinto-opas 2012-2013
Medical Informatics, 35 cr |
Type of the study block
Int. MSc Major Studies
Contact
Ilkka Korhonen
Learning outcomes
| - | Students are able to identify and formulate problems and rise to these challenges in the field of medicine and health care by applying information technology. |
| - | Students are able to apply telecommunications technology and software engineering in health care problems and produce eHealth solutions and services according to international regulations and standards. |
| - | Students are able to model physiological and health care systems and their measurements, and able to construct computational models for different medical applications. |
| - | Students are able to design and apply basic methods for processing and analyzing physiological signals and for analyzing medical images, focusing on bioelectrical signals and medical images. |
Prerequisites
The student should have previous knowledge from the field of information technology, computer science, or biomedical engineering. ( Mandatory )
Content
Compulsory courses
| Course | Credit points | Class |
| BME-1506 Research Project in Biomedical Engineering | 5 cr | II |
| BME-1806 Master's Seminar on Biomedical Engineering | 2 cr | II |
| BME-2606 eHealth | 5 cr | I |
| BME-2626 Processing of Physiological Signals | 5 cr | I |
| BME-2636 Medical Image Analysis | 5 cr | I |
| BME-2716 Modelling of Physiological Systems | 5 cr | I |
| Total | 27 cr |
Supplemental courses
Please select courses from the list to complete the study block`s requirement (35)
| Course | Credit points | Class |
| BME-1306 Commercialization in Biomedical Engineering | 4 cr | II |
| MAT-41176 Theory of Automata | 5 cr | II |
| MAT-51216 Information Theory | 4 cr | II |
| MAT-51706 Bayesian Methods | 6 cr | II |
| MAT-52506 Inverse Problems | 6 cr | I |
| OHJ-1156 Programming II | 5 cr | I |
| OHJ-1406 Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming | 4 cr | I |
| OHJ-2016 Utilization of Data Structures | 5 cr | I |
| OHJ-3056 Software Engineering Methodology | 6 cr | I |
| SGN-2556 Pattern Recognition | 5 cr | I |
| SGN-2806 Neural Computation | 5 cr | II |
| SGN-3016 Digital Image Processing I | 5 cr | I |
| SGN-3507 Introduction to Medical Image Processing | 5 cr | II |
| SGN-5306 Knowledge Mining | 3 cr | II |
| TLT-2316 Computer Networking I | 5 cr | II |
Additional information
The field of medical informatics is broad, covering different management activities of medical and biological data, information and knowledge. eHealth covers various applications of information and communications technology in medicine and healthcare. Special topics of medical informatics include biomedical signal processing and medical image analysis, computational modeling, and neuroinformatics. Minor subjects that support the medical instrumentation major include Computer Engineering, Signal Processing, Mathematics and Computational Systems Biology. Biomedical Engineering is not allowed as a minor subject for this major.