Advanced Topics in Biomedical Informatics

Catalog description

This course serves to review many of the key methodologies used in biomedical informatics. During this course we will cover a range of topics including systems biology, multi-omics analysis, medical imaging, artificial intelligence and natural language processing. We will spend approximately 15 minutes at the start of class discussing methodologies and general concepts. The last portion of the class will be spent with student-led presentations of journal articles assigned for that week. Specific students will be assigned for that session but all students are expected to thoroughly review the papers and research background questions prior to class. Discussions are meant to foster conversation and critical thinking in the context of biology and differences in background knowledge will be taken into account in grading.