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Postgraduate Course: Issues in Clinical Data Modelling (INFR11195)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Informatics CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course provides students on the UKRI CDT in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence with the opportunity to learn the challenges of clinical data modelling directly through guest lectures by leading clinicians who collect and analyse complex biomedical datasets.
Course description The course is a primer in clinical data modelling, informing students upon the challenges involved in a variety of clinical contexts and in depth understanding of the data collection aspects in one particular area.

Upon completion of the course, the students will have acquired:
- The ability to critically assess and discuss the challenges associated with clinical data modelling across a variety of contexts and diseases;
- Familiarity with the data analysis techniques currently being employed in clinical research.
- A broad understanding of the scale and complexity of datasets across a range of subject domains.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements This course is ONLY available to students in the CDT in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2021/22, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 1
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 16, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 6, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 76 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) 100% coursework.

The course assessment will consist of a short written essay (10 pages max) on state-of-the-art and challenges for AI in one of the clinical data fields discussed in the course.
Topics to be covered include:
- motivation: why is data being collected?
- protocol: what data is being collected and how?
- analysis: which methods are currently used to analyse the data in the lab?
- possible developments: how could analysis methods be improved? what are the challenges to doing so?
- implications: what are the broader implications of clinical research in this area?
Feedback Feedback on assessed coursework will be provided within two weeks, and will include formative comments on work in relation to concepts studied in the course.
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Critically assess the challenges associated with clinical data modelling across a variety of contexts and diseases, in particular with respect to noise in the data, patient stratification and regulatory and ethical issues;
  2. Present and discuss the data acquisition protocols in one area of biomedicine to an interdisciplinary audience.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Students on the course will develop skills in using a range of specialised skills, techniques, practices and/or materials that are at the forefront of, or informed by forefront developments; In applying a range of standard and specialised research and/or equivalent instruments and techniques of enquiry; planning and executing a significant project of research, investigation or demonstrating originality and/or creativity, including in practices; exercise substantial autonomy and initiative in professional and equivalent activities.
KeywordsCDT-BAI,ICDM
Contacts
Course organiserDr Andrea Weisse
Tel: (0131 6)51 1211
Email: Andrea.Weisse@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Lindsay Seal
Tel: (0131 6)50 2701
Email: lindsay.seal@ed.ac.uk
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