BMM208

Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering

Faculty \ Department
School of Engineering \ Biomedical Engineering
Course Credit
ECTS Credit
Course Type
Instructional Language
3
6
Compulsory
Turkish
Prerequisites
MAT 201
Programs that can take the course
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Course Description
Introduction to AI applications in healthcare. Medical data types (tabular, text, imaging). Supervised and unsupervised learning. Feature extraction. Feature selection methods. Machine learning algorithms (K-nearest neighbor, K-means clustering, linear regression, artificial neural networks). Cross-validation methods. Performance metrics. Ethical issues and the future of AI in healthcare.
Textbook and / or References
R. O. Duda, P. E. Hart and D. G. Stork, “Pattern Classification,” 2nd Edition, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 2001.
Ethem Alpaydin. Introduction to Machine Learning 4th Edition. The MIT Press. 2014.
Various journal publications
Course Objectives
The aim of this course is to show students the application areas of artificial intelligence in medicine and to equip them with the ability to use AI methods to solve complex medical or biology-focused problems they may encounter in the future.
Course Outcomes
1. Understands the problems related to artificial intelligence in health.
2. Have knowledge about medical data types.
3. Have knowledge about the development of artificial intelligence models.
4. Understands model development strategies.
5. Derives new ideas to analyse data or develop a new method in the field of health.
Tentative Course Plan
Week 1: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Applications in Health
Week 2: Basic Statistics and Linear Algebra
Week 3: Medical Data Types
Week 4: Guided and Unguided Learning
Week 5: Feature Extraction
Week 6: Feature Selection Methods
Week 7: Machine Learning Algorithms
Week 8: Machine Learning Algorithms
Week 9: Classification and Prediction Model Development
Week 10: Cross Validity Methods
Week 11: Performance Metrics
Week 12: Future of Artificial Intelligence in Health
Tentative Assesment Methods
Activities Number Weight (%)
Course Attendance/Participation - -
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Homework 1 15%
Project - -
Presentation - -
Field Work - -
Internship - -
Course Boards - -
Quiz 1 10%
Midterm Exam 1 35%
Final Exam 1 40%
Total 100%

Tentative ECTS-Workload Table
Activities Number/Weeks Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours (first 6 weeks) 6 4 24
Course Hours (last 6 weeks) 6 3 18
Laboratory - - -
Application - - -
Homework 1 10 10
Project - - -
Presentation - - -
Field Work - - -
Internship - - -
Course Boards - - -
Preparation for Quiz 1 10 10
Preparation for Midterm Exam 1 15 15
Final Exam 1 2 2
Preparation for Final Exam 1 25 25
Study Hours Out of Class (preliminary work, reinforcement, etc.) 12 6 72
Total Workload 176
Total Workload / 30 176 / 30
5.866667
ECTS Credits of the Course 6
Program Outcome **
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Course Outcome
1
2
3 A, B
4 B, C
5