Winter Term
Topics covered in the course include:
- Data Sources and Types
- Data Formats
- Data Preparation and Transformation
- Spreadsheets
- Databases
- Programming
- Statistical Analysis
- Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
- Big Data
- Business Intelligence
- Presentation and Visualization
Winter Term
Computing fundamentals as they relate to medical computing, and a selection from: health information technology systems and standards, data representation and privacy issues in medical databases, embedded software in medical instruments, computer-aided modelling, simulation and analysis in various medical domains, medical imaging, the use of computers in diagnosis including computer vision and expert systems, computer aided procedures and telemedicine.
Two versions are taught together: CS2124a (assignments) and CS2125f (essay course).
Studies implementiions of different langauge features, e.g.
- Memory management / garbage collection
- Functional programming and closures
- Lazy evaluation and parallel futures
- Polymorphic programming
- Types as first class values, type categories, dependent types
- Method dispatch and optimization in object-oriented languages
- Topics in code optimization, including dataflow analysis
- Iterators, generators, co-routines and their optimization
The subjects are selected from:
- On-line and off-line recognition.
- Applications of handwriting recognition.
- Properties of digital ink.
- Digital ink representation. Standards.
- Properties of writing systems.
- Camera-based and digitizer-based input.
- The geometry of digital ink.
- Stages in handwriting analysis: normalization, segmentation
- Recognition techniques: Hidden markov models,
support vector machines, vector space methods.
- Dictionary-based methods
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