Degree in Health Engineering La Salle Campus Barcelona

Bachelor in Health Engineering

Lead the technological advances that will define the medicine of the future.

Data science applied to biomedicine

Description
Applied data science in biomedicine is a discipline that combines data management with biomedical analysis to improve the quality and efficiency of medical processes. This course covers the data lifecycle, quality assessment, data governance, medical language normalization, data sharing, and cross-cohort analysis.
Type Subject
Tercer - Obligatoria
Semester
Second
Course
4
Credits
3.00
Previous Knowledge

No prior knowledge is required.

Objectives

Students acquire the knowledge and develop the skills listed below:
1. Understand the stages of the data lifecycle, from creation to deletion or storage.
2. Use ontologies and knowledge graphs for medical language normalization.
3. Implement data anonymization techniques to share data securely.

Contents

1. Data lifecycle and quality assessment: stages, quality dimensions, FAIR principles.
2. Data governance and policies: ethical, legal, and institutional conditions, data ownership, permissions, data access committees.
3. Medical language normalization: ontologies, SNOMED CT, LOINC, HPO, interoperability.
4. Data sharing: anonymization techniques, aggregated and federated models, cloud-based environments, synthetic data generation, federated discovery, federated learning.

Methodology

The classes of the Applied Data Science in Biomedicine course aim to enhance the active learning of the student, which is eminently practical. The student is an active member of the classes and learns as they develop the tasks presented with their laptop. The classes are focused on having the student code scripts, combining theoretical material with practical classes. Additionally, there will be an introduction to the R programming language, which will be combined with activities developed using Python, providing the necessary tools to successfully complete the course.

Evaluation

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Evaluation Criteria

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Basic Bibliography

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Additional Material

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