NDAK10005U Medical Image Analysis (MIA)
MSc Programme in Computer Science
MSc Programme in Physics
Medical diagnosis, prognosis and quantification of progression
is in general based on biomarkers. These may be blood or urine
markers, but currently, imaging is taking over as a more indicative
biomarker for many purposes.
This course will give an introduction to medical image formation in
the different scanning modalities: X-ray, CT, MR, fMRI, PET, US
etc. We will continue with the underlying image analysis
disciplines of segmentation, registration and end with specific
machine learning applications in clinical practise. A key to
achieving success in the medical image analysis is formal
evaluation of methodologies, thus an introduction to
performance characterisation will also be a central topic.
We will use techniques from image analysis and real-world examples
from the clinic.
The course aims to provide sufficient background knowledge for
doing master theses (specialer) as well as student projects within
medical image analysis.
The course is primarily aimed at students from computer science, physics and mathematics with an interest in applications to medical image analysis and related technologies.
The student will at the end of the course have:
Knowledge of
- Physics of X-ray formation.
- Computed tomography.
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
- Functional MRI.
- Positron Emission Tomography.
- Single Photon Emission Tomography.
- Medical statistics.
- Segmentation/Pixel classification.
- Shape modelling and statistics.
- Rigid & Non-rigid registration + Multi-modal registration.
- Machine learning with medical data
- Applications in lung diseases.
- Applications in neurology.
Skills in
- Explaining the basics of the underlying physics behind medical image acquisition techniques such as CT, MRI and PET.
- Explaining the role of medical image analysis in relation to detection and prognosis of pathologies and clinical investigations.
- Reading and implementing methods described in the scientific literature in the field of medical imaging.
- Finding and using existing tools within medical image analysis and assessing the quality of the output produced.
- Applying the implemented methods to medical images with the purpose of analysing a specific pathology.
Competences in
- Analysing, creating and using pipelines of methods for the purpose of analysing medical images in a scientific context.
- Understanding the fundamental challenges in medical image analysis.
- Understanding the representation of images in a computer.
See Absalon
In the course, we will be using Python as the programming language, and programming skills in Python are highly recommended.
Academic qualifications equivalent to a BSc degree are recommended.
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 32
- Preparation
- 78
- Exercises
- 16
- Exam
- 80
- Total
- 206
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- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Oral exam on basis of previous submission, 15 minutes (no preparation time)
- Type of assessment details
- During the course, the students must hand in 4 written
assignments.
The oral exam will take its outset in one of these assignments chosen at random by the examiner but can contain questions about the entire syllabus.
The student must hand in all 4 written assignments in order to participate in the oral examination. - Aid
- Only certain aids allowed
- For the oral examination only print outs of the student's own hand-ins are permitted.
- For programming tasks specifically, the use of GitHub Copilot or similar AI-based programming tools is permitted.
- For learning about topics, ChatGPT or similar Large Language Models is also permitted.
The finite list of allowed AI-tools will be announced in Absalon.
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Several internal examiners
- Re-exam
Same as the ordinary exam.
All assignments must be resubmitted no later than 3 weeks before the re-exam date.
Criteria for exam assesment
See Learning Outcome
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- NDAK10005U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Block 1
- Schedule
- A
- Course capacity
- No limitation – unless you register in the late-registration period (BSc and MSc) or as a credit or single subject student.
Study board
- Study Board of Mathematics and Computer Science
Contracting department
- Department of Computer Science
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Science
Course Coordinators
- Melanie Ganz-Benjaminsen (ganz@di.ku.dk)
Lecturers
Melanie Ganz & Bulat Ibragimov