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Research Postgraduate Programme

DATA8012 - AI in Medicine (Application)

Course Instructor


Prof Qingpeng ZHANG  

Course Description 

In this course, students will learn a variety of AI and other computational approaches to address important problems in medicine, including disease diagnosis, risk assessment, patient stratification, infectious disease monitoring, mental health promotion, etc. In addition to the introduction to fundamental methods and classic case studies, students will also learn state-of-the-art by reading latest publications (mostly in the past 1-2 years). Students are required to form groups to work on a project with open source data. 

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge in college-level mathematics and statistics will be required.