CT108: Course Outline

Important Note

The lecture notes can be accessed via Blackboard and are provided as a convenience only.
They are intended as a support to course lectures, labs and
assignments and are supplemented during the academic year.
Students are strongly advised to attend all lectures and laboratory
sessions, as well as studying the recommended course texts.

Lecture

Lecture Topic and Lecture Notes

1

Introduction: Course Outline and Organisation; Definition of Medical Informatics; Case Study: Medical Informatics and Diabetes.
 

·         References to Textbooks:
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·         Lecture Notes:
See Blackboard

2

Medical Information: The Diagnostic-Therapeutic Cycle; Medical Data and their Attributes; Modifiers; Uncertainty; Storage of Medical Records; Use of Medical Data; Issues with Medical Data; Data-Knowledge-Information; The Hypothetico-Deductive Approach; Sensitivity, Specificity, Prevalence and the Predictive Value.
 

·         References to Textbooks:
Handbook of Medical Informatics; 1st Edition by J. H. van Bemmel et al.
Chapter 1: Data and Information
Medical Informatics; 2nd Edition by E.H. Shortliffe et al.
Chapter 2: Medical Data: Their Acquisition, Storage, and Use

·         Lecture Notes:
See Blackboard

3

Computer Applications in Medicine: Model for Structuring Computer Applications in Health Care; MI in Communications and Telematics; MI in Data Storage and Data Retrieval; MI in Processing and Automation; MI in Diagnosis and Decision Making; MI in Therapy and Control; MI in Research and Development.
 

·         References to Textbooks:
Handbook of Medical Informatics; 1st Edition by J. H. van Bemmel et al.
Chapter 1: Data and Information
Medical Informatics; 2nd Edition by E.H. Shortliffe et al.
Chapter 2: Medical Data: Their Acquisition, Storage, and Use

·         Lecture Notes:
See Blackboard

4

Biosignals - Part I: Blood Pressure; Classification of Blood Pressure Values; Hypertension; Causes and Effects of Hypertension; Physiological Behaviour of Blood Pressure; Invasive and non-invasive Blood Pressure Measurements; Oscillometric and Auscultatory Measurement; Blood Pressure Monitoring Systems.
 

·         References to Textbooks:
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·         Lecture Notes:
See Blackboard

·         Additional Material (on Blackboard):
Animation: Auscultatory Blood Pressure Measurement

5

Biosignals - Part II: Anatomy of the Heart; Cardiac Cycle; Structure of an ECG; Anomalies of an ECG.
 

·         References to Textbooks:
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·         Lecture Notes:
See Blackboard

·         Additional Material (on Blackboard):
Animation:  The Heart
Animation: Heart and Lungs
Animation: Heart Contraction and ECG

6

Medical Imaging - Part I: Ionising versus non-Ionising Radiation; Tomography versus Projection; Tomographic Imaging Techniques in Diagnostic Imaging; Coronary Angiography; Nuclear Scintigraphy and Cardiac Imaging; Transthoracic Echocardiography; Transesophageal Echocardiography; Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
 

·         References to Textbooks:
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·         Lecture Notes:
See Blackboard

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7

Medical Imaging - Part II: Attributes of a (medical) image; Image Processing Techniques.
 

·         References to Textbooks:
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·         Lecture Notes:
See Blackboard

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