Biomedical Informatics: Lecture Notes to LV 444.152

Holzinger, Andreas

ISBN 10: 3848222191 / ISBN 13: 9783848222193

Published by Bod - Books on Demand, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Biomedical Informatics: Lecture Notes to LV 444.152
• Publisher: Bod - Books on Demand
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3848222191
• ISBN 13: 9783848222193
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Medical Informatics is defined as an interdisciplinary field studying the effective use of biomedical data, information and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving, and decision making, motivated by efforts to improve human health. To emphasize the broad character it is called Biomedical Informatics. The course LV 444.152 consists of the following 12 lectures: 1. Introduction: Computer Science meets Life Sciences, challenges and future directions; 2. Back to the future: Fundamentals of Data, Information and Knowledge; 3. Structured Data: Coding, Classification (ICD, SNOMED, MeSH, UMLS); 4. Biomedical Databases: Acquisition, Storage, Information Retrieval and Use; 5. Semi structured and weakly structured data; 6. Multimedia Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; 7. Knowledge and Decision: Cognitive Science and Human-Computer Interaction; 8. Biomedical Decision Making: Reasoning and Decision Support; 9. Intelligent Information Visualization and Visual Analytics; 10. Biomedical Information Systems and Medical Knowledge Management; 11. Biomedical Data: Privacy, Safety and Security 12. Methodology for Information Systems: System Design, Usability and Evaluation

About the Author

Head of the Research Unit Human-Computer Interaction (hci4all.at), Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University Graz; Assoc. Prof. for Informatics at the Institute of Information Systems and Computer Media, Faculty of Computer Science and Lecturer at the Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Electrical and Information Engineering, Graz University of Technology; Andreas was Visiting Professor in Berlin, Innsbruck, Vienna, London and Aachen. Since 1999 participation in leading positions in 30+ multinational research and development projects with a budget of 3+ MEUR; 300+ publications, 2600+ citations, h index = 25, g Index = 56, (08/2012). Motto: Science is to test ideas - Engineering is to put these ideas into practice.