Schedule

Event

Date

Description

Course Module
Lecture

2024/05/06
Monday

Lecture 0 - Introduction to health data science
[slides] [Audio Recording] [Recording with Slides (last year but only change is presentation vs written proposal weighting)]

Module 0: Reproducible Research

Minor issue with screen capture for this lecture (will sort for next lecture) so I’ve posted the audio recording and the recording with slides from last year’s offering.
Proposal Class

2024/05/08
Wednesday

Proposal Class 0 - Papers and Research Questions
[slides] [recording]
Literature Tutorial

2024/05/08
Wednesday

Literature 0 - Reproducible Research
[A Beginner’s Guide to Conducting Reproducible Research] [Reproducibility in machine learning for health research, still a ways to go]
Practical

2024/05/10
Friday

Practical 0 - Reproducible Health Data Science Research
[Intro to R (html)] [Intro to R (rmd)] [Practical 0 (html)] [Practical 0 (rmd)]
Lecture

2024/05/13
Monday

Lecture 1 - Medical Databases
[slides] [recording]

Module 1: Medical Databases (Tabular Data)
Proposal Class

2024/05/15
Wednesday

Proposal Class 1 - Abstracts and Data Access Considerations
[slides] [audio recording]
Literature Tutorial

2024/05/15
Wednesday

Literature 1 - Medical Databases
[Interpretable Machine Learning Approaches to Prediction of Chronic Homelessness] [Health Care and Public Service Use and Costs Before and After Provision of Housing for Chronically Homeless Persons With Severe Alcohol Problems]
Practical

2024/05/17
Friday

Practical 1 - Medical Databases
[Practical (html)] [Practical (rmd)] [Dataset] [Data Dictionary]
2024/05/20 00:00
Monday

University Closed - Victoria Day
Lecture

2024/05/22
Wednesday

Lecture 2 - Electronic Medical Records
[slides] [recording]

Module 2: Electronic Medical Records
Proposal Class

2024/05/24
Friday

Proposal Class 2 - Proposing Ethical Research
[slides]
Literature Tutorial

2024/05/24
Friday

Literature 2 - Electronic Medical Records
[Identifying Clinical Terms in Medical Text Using Ontology-Guided Machine Learning] [The Shaky Foundations of Clinical Foundation Models: A Survey of Large Language Models and Foundation Models for EMRs]
Due

2024/05/26 23:59
Sunday

Report from Practical 1: Medical Databases Due
Practical

2024/05/27
Monday

Practical 2 - Electronic Medical Records
[Practical (html)] [Practical (rmd)]
Lecture

2024/05/29
Wednesday

Lecture 3 - Medical Imaging
[slides] [recording]

Module 3: Medical Imaging (Image Data)
Proposal Class

2024/05/31
Friday

Proposal Class 3 - Proposal checkpoint
Literature Tutorial

2024/05/31
Friday

Literature 3 - Medical Imaging
[Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Fundus Photographs] [Deep learning algorithm predicts diabetic retinopathy progression in individual patients]
Due

2024/06/02 23:59
Sunday

Report from Practical 2: Electronic Medical Records
Practical

2024/06/03
Monday

Practical 3 - Medical Images
[Practical (rmd)] [Dataset (zip)] [Practical (html)]
Lecture

2024/06/05
Wednesday

Lecture 4 - Physiological Signal Data
[slides] [recording]

Module 4: Physiological Sensors (Signal Data)
Proposal Class

2024/06/07
Friday

Proposal Class 4 - Knowledge Translation Plans
[slides] [recording]
Literature Tutorial

2024/06/07
Friday

Literature 4 - Physiological Sensors
[Improvements in atrial fibrillation detection for real-time monitoring] [An artificial intelligence-enabled ECG algorithm for the identification of patients with atrial fibrillation during sinus rhythm, a retrospective analysis of outcome prediction]
Due

2024/06/09 23:59
Sunday

Report from Practical 3: Radiological Imaging
Practical

2024/06/10
Monday

Practical 4 - Physiological Sensors
[Practical (html)] [Practical (rmd)]
Exam

2024/06/12 13:05
Wednesday

Proposal Presentations 1
Exam

2024/06/14 13:05
Friday

Proposal Presentations 2
Due

2024/06/16 23:59
Sunday

Report from Practical 4: Physiological Time-Series
Exam

2024/06/21 23:59
Friday

Written Proposal Deadline Today