The aim of the curriculum is for participants to learn machine learning methods from the ground up,
to understand their potential applications in medicine,
to evaluate their results,
or to apply them themselves in the future.
We offer mathematics and machine learning methods at different levels, depending on the goals of the participants. We also want to show the extent to which machine learning methods are already being used in medical research and in everyday clinical practice.
We believe it is important to educate medical students about the social and ethical implications of applying machine learning to medical data. This further includes the professional handling of medical data (data literacy).
Participants are supported on their learning journey through exercises and practical sessions.
More details
The table below gives a more detailed overview of the topics covered in each area. Please note that this list is not exhaustive and will be updated as more learning content is created.
Mathematics
Linear algebra
Analytic geometry
Vector calculus
Probability theory, statistics & distributions
Machine Learning (ML)
Unsupervised Learning
Clustering
k-Means algorithm
Dimensionality reduction
Principal component analysis
Supervised Learning
Classification & regression
Logistic regression
k-Nearest neighbors algorithm
Support vector machines
Decision trees
Deep Learning
Introduction to neural networks
Multilayer neural networks
How neural networks learn
Applications of ML to medical data
Medical image reconstruction
Medical image segmentation
Ethical and social implications & data literacy
Doctor - patient - AI: Implications for shared decision-making
Ethical aspects applying machine learning to clinical data