Biomedical Informatics

Biomedical data, information and databases; computer science and informatics in biomedicine; standards in biomedical informatics; biomedical data security, privacy and confidentiality; clinical informatics; public health informatics; imaging informatics; bioinformatics; biostatistics; radiomics; information-driven decision-support systems in biomedicine and healthcare.

The course objective is to obtain knowledge in the field of biomedical informatics, which is extremely interdisciplinary, merging approaches from biomedical, electrical and computer engineering, informatics, medicine, pharmacy, biology, management, sociology and economy, and is primarily concerned with optimal storage, retrieval, protection, transport, standardization and usage of biomedical data and information. Practical laboratory work consists of implementing computerized and computer-assisted techniques that adhere to the existing standards and established techniques in biomedical informatics that are used for protection, storage, transport and retrieval of biomedical data and information.

During lectures, theoretical aspects of techniques, existing standards and established methods are given, which are additionally supported by descriptions of practical examples from different fields of application. During laboratory practice, techniques for computer-and information-based protection, storing, transport and retrieval of biomedical data and information are developed and implemented.