bmi courses
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500 Level Courses
501 Introduction to Biomedical Informatics (3)
This course offers an overview of the field of biomedical informatics, combining perspectives from medicine, computer science and cognitive/social science for use of computers and information in health care, and the biomedical sciences, covering specific applications and general methods, current issues, capabilities and limitations of biomedical informatics.
502: Foundations of Biomedical Informatics Methods I (3)
The first semester of a two semester course surveying the methods and theories underlying the field of biomedical informatics. The course explores techniques in mathematics, logic, decision science, computer science, engineering, cognitive science, management science and epidemiology, and demonstrates the application to health care and biomedicine.
BMI 505: Foundations of Biomedical Informatics Methods II (3)
The second semester of a two semester course surveying the methods and theories underlying the field of biomedical informatics. The course explores techniques in mathematics, logic, decision science, computer science, engineering, cognitive science, management science and epidemiology, and demonstrates the application to health care and biomedicine.
BMI 511: Decision Support and Evidence-Based Practice (3)
Course is focused on the biomedical decision making and the tools and techniques for decision support. Quantitative and qualitative decision methods will be explored with biomedical applications. Artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques will also be applied to biomedical problems and decision support.
BMI 515: Advanced Biostatistical Methods (3)
Understanding biomedical data; how to use statistical methods and software to analyze biomedical data correctly; to emphasize examples and applications from the biomedical informatics; Basic Probability and Statistics; Confidence Interval; Hypothesis Tests; Analysis of Variance; Binary Data; Categorical Data Analysis; Logistic Regression; Linear Regression.
BMI 516: Advanced Biomedical Data Analysis (3)
Understand how to acquire, convert and organize biological data into relevant diagnostic, therapeutic and research information. Clinical, imaging and bioinformatics data will be utilized in the course. Advanced techniques on information extraction and data mining will be utilized for data analysis. Methods of data organization and data reporting will also be covered.
BMI 520: Modeling Gene Regulatory Networks (3)
The course will teach various computational and mathematical modeling to approximate gene regulatory networks as well as signaling pathways. Inference of model parameters will be also covered.
BMI 540: Problem Solving in Biomedical Informatics (3)
This course covers the theory and practice of software engineering principles as they apply to large and medium-scale clinical systems from bench to bedside. It will expose students to an interdisciplinary, team-oriented approach to engineer high-quality software for health care sciences and health care delivery systems that benefits from a diversity of backgrounds and areas of expertise among the team members.
BMI 541: Cognition and Decision Making in Healthcare (3)
The focus in this course is on conceptual and methodological issues in cognitive science and medical informatics and will consider cognitive and social factors that pertain to the design and use of technology in medical settings. Cognitive science is a multidisciplinary field incorporating theories and methods from psychology, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, and computer science in the study of cognition.
BMI 555: Medical Information Management (3)
This course covers database theory and information management systems with applications to bio-medical domain. The students are expected to develop a working knowledge of design, access, and implementation of database systems. The students will also be exposed to current deployment of database technology in biomedical applications, as well as the use of databases in the web context.
BMI 580: Practicum
BMI 591: Public Health Informatics (3)
BMI 591: Human Computer Interaction in Biomedicine (3)