Enrol in Our MEDI504B Course (January - February 2024)
DASH is excited to deliver our second iteration of UBC Experimental Medicine Program's MEDI504B course in the upcoming semester! All UBC graduate students are welcome - for any questions or if you have trouble registering, please contact medi.exptlmed@ubc.ca.
Course Name: MEDI504B Emerging Topics in Experimental Medicine (Machine Learning Analysis in Health Data)
Course Instructor: Dr. Aline Talhouk (Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology)
Date/Time: 2023/24 WT2 Mon & Wed 1-3pm (Location: DHCC); January 8 - February 21, 2024
Credit: 1.5
Course Summary: We target students who are interested in how medical care can be transformed by “Big data”. We use real-life clinical use cases to motivate how clinical care can be enhanced with collecting unconventional data of various kinds and feeding such data to machine learning methods to build next-generation clinical tools. However, even with the appropriate data collected, we describe the data science challenges that need to be overcome before the data can be used properly. We give an introduction of the main concepts and methods in biostatistics, machine learning, including unsupervised and supervised methods, and data visualization. Last but not least, we discuss ethical, fairness issues and other potential pitfalls of applying machine learning to medical care.
Pre-requisite: MEDI504A (*For pre-req exemption, please email medi.exptlmed@ubc.ca)