6.872J/HST950 Class Home

6.872J/HST950 Biomedical Computing

Fall 2008

Instructors: Peter Szolovits, Marco F Ramoni, Gil Alterovitz

Course Secretary: Fern D Keniston

Lecture: TR9.30-11 (32-144)

Information:

Contemporary medical care requires health care providers (and patients and their families) to know a great deal about the diseases, genetic predispositions, signs and symptoms, treatments and medications of each individual. To exploit the potential contributions of improvements in our understanding of genomics, proteomics and the “new biology,” we must combine such data with the clinical data that represent the patient’s phenotype. We must also develop new analytical methods to find the important relationships among these data, and then apply them in many settings to improve health care.

These needs form an intriguing engineering challenge described in this class, along with methods and practices aimed at their solution.

Topics:

Contemporary Medical Care: Purpose, methods, organization
Medical Data: Types, organization, presentation, uses
Standards: Terminologies, coding, natural language processing
Health Enterprise and National Infrastructures
Privacy: Data de-identification & anonymization, geographic information, genetic data
Public Health & Surveillance
Telemedicine & Medicine in the Developing World
Learning Graphical Models
Analysis of Networks
Statistical Signal Processing
Temporal Inference Methods
Information-Theoretic Metrics
Bayesian Statistics
Decision Support

Announcements

Eta Kappa Nu course evaluation for 6.872/HST950

Please take a few moments to give us feedback on this class. We are always interested in this, especially in how it helps us to evolve the course for next year. You are supposed to be able to access the on-line evaluation at http://sixweb.mit.edu/, where you need to follow the "Get Started" hyperlink. I am not sure how this site deals with students enrolled via cross-registration, but the claim that they will address this problem "in the near future" does not give me confidence. The evaluation period runs to December 10, so please act by then. Non-anonymous suggestions by email are, of course, also welcome, but they will not show up in the official evaluation. Thank you. --Peter Sz.

Announced on 04 December 2008 11:26 a.m. by Peter Szolovits