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DT8119

Clinical Decision Support

Assessments and mandatory activities may be changed until September 20th.

Credits 7.5
Level Doctoral degree level
Course start Spring 2027
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Work

About

About the course

Course content

Theory, methods and use cases of artificial intelligence and decision support for clinicians and patients . Content is aligned with student needs, but may range over: Representation of clinical knowledge, guidelines and recommendations; Interfaces for decision support and decision making; Search and ranking of recommendations; Machine learning for analysis of health trajectories; Methods for authoring and validation of clinical guidelines; Evaluation, efficacy and consistency; Technology for decision support; Precision medicine; Generative methods; Foundation models; Deep phenotyping. Risks, limitations and regulations for decision support and AI in health.

Learning outcome

Knowledge about: Understanding areas of use, theory, relevant AI and reasoning models, representations, risks, limitations and regulations.

Abilities: Employ and select research methods for developing and evaluating decision support systems. Ability to make requirements, prototype and evaluate systems in the context of use cases and healthcare settings. Basic AI-based data preparation, analysis and stewardship. Use of infrastructure resources and tools for computational decision support development, deployment and quality. Use tools and methods for anonymization and data preprocessing.

Competence: Understand the relationship with underlying scientific areas like knowledge engineering, information extraction, process support. Understand interplay between data-driven architectures and ethical, privacy and safety considerations and regulations.

Learning methods and activities

Seminars, lectures, (programming) laboratory, field work and collaborative writing. Guest lectures and visits.

Compulsory assignments

  • Paper

Required previous knowledge

Course content can be adjusted to fit individual background and research objectives.

Course materials

Research papers, books and tools. Will be specified after initial student survey. A relevant textbook is: Clinical Decision Support and Beyond: Progress and Opportunities in Knowledge-Enhanced Health and Healthcare; Ed: Robert A. Greenes and Guilherme Del Fiol, Academic Press, 2023.

Subject areas

  • Computer and Information Science
  • Applied Information and Communication Technology
  • Clinical Medicine
  • Computer Science
  • Medical Computer Science
  • Information Systems
  • Biophysics and Medical Technology
  • Computer Systems
  • Computer Systems
  • Allmennmedisin
  • Bioinformatics
  • Farmakologi
  • Informatics
  • Information Technology and Informatics
  • Communication and Information Science

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Computer Science

Examination

Examination

Examination arrangement: Work
Grade: Passed / Not Passed

Ordinary examination - Spring 2027

Work
Weighting 100/100 Examination aids ALLE Duration 3 months Exam system Inspera Assessment