Contact information

InstructorFrank Rudzicz
OfficeTRI 12-175
Office phone416 597 3422 x7971 (at Toronto Rehab)
Emailfrank@cs.toronto.[ude backwards] (fix the suffix)
Twitter@SPOClab
Piazzahttps://piazza.com/class#fall2016/csc4902600
Email policyFor confidential course-related inquiries, consult the instructor. Emails sent with appropriate subject headings and from University of Toronto email addresses are most likely not to be redirected towards junk email folders, for example.

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Meeting times

Class timeMWF 10h00-11h00 in LA 341
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Course outline

This is an intensive introduction to AI applied to issues in medical diagnosis, therapy selection, monitoring, and learning from health data. It will briefly cover the healthcare industry in Canada, electronic medical records, and ethical/security concerns. It will go into more depth into language and video processing, and machine learning. The course will be project-based and students have considerable flexibility in defining their projects.

Prerequisites: Please see http://www.cdf.toronto.edu/~clarke/ugn/20111/prereq.html for information on prerequisites. For advice, contact the Undergraduate Office, in rooms 4252-4 of the Bahen Centre.

The course information sheet is available here.

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Resources

TopicTitleNotes
DevelopmentApple ResearchKit (free) and HealthKit (requires subscription).
DevelopmentNLP tools
TextbookNeustein, A. (2014) Text Mining of Web-Based Medical Content. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.
TextbookMerali, Z., Woodfine, J.D. eds. (2016) Toronto Notes.
DataUpToDate (requires subscription).
DataTexas Inpatient Public Use Data.
DataNational (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (NIS).
DataClassifying Clinical Text.
DataMIDAS.
DataHealthData.gov.
Data/tools/communityi2b2: informatics for integrating biology and the bedside.
Cognitive CloudIBM BlueMix.
Open-source EMROscar EMR.
AssesmentHamilton depression scale.
AssesmentThe Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire.
VocabularyUnified Medical Language System (UMLS).
Healthcare statisticsCIHI statistics.

References

Other links

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Evaluation policies

General
You will be graded on two in-class quizzes, participation, and a team project. The relative proportions of these grades are as follows:
Two quizzes (individual, 5% each)10%
Participation (individual)5%
Project (team)85%
     Oral presentation: 10%
     Written report: 90%
Collaboration and plagiarism
No unauthorized collaboration on the projects is permitted. The work you submit must be your team's own. 'Collaboration' in this context includes but is not limited to sharing of source code and correction of another's source code. Reporting fraudulent experimental results is, as should be obvious, also unaccept- able. Failure to observe this policy is an academic offence, carrying a penalty ranging from a zero on the project to suspension from the University. See Academic integrity at the University of Toronto.
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Syllabus

The following is an estimate of the topics to be covered in the course and is subject to change.

  • The healthcare industry
  • Electronic medical records
  • Clinical decision support systems
  • Machine learning for natural language
  • Machine learning for vision
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Bioethics and challenges to deployment

Calendar

16 SeptemberFirst lecture
25 SeptemberLast day to add CSC490
26 SeptemberLast day to add CSC2600
30 SeptemberQuiz 1
10 OctoberThanksgiving (no classes)
14 OctoberQuiz 2
31 OctoberLast day to drop 2600
7 NovemberLast day to drop 490
9 DecemberLast lecture and final report due

See Dates for undergraduate students.

See Dates for graduate students.

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News and announcements

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Lecture materials

WeekSubjectsLecture slidesAssigned reading
1
(16 Sep)
  • Introduction
1
(26 Sep)
  • Sound and vision
1
(21 Nov)
  • Ethics
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