Advanced Biomedical Machine Learning, A.Y. 2022/23

Master's Degree Course, University of Pavia, Department of Electric, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, 2023

This course explore a variety of advanced machine learning methods for mining clinical data. Much of this exploration is a hands-on experience, using time in class to expose the principles of each method. In this course I give lectures the Natural Language Processing module, prepare and co-supervise lab work and review assignments. Details about the module:

  • Frontal lessons: NLP fundamentals from frequency counts to word embeddings (6 hrs).
  • NLP lab: hands-on lab where students have to build a simple embedding-based NLP pipeline for binary classification (4 hrs).
  • Journal Club: students read, review and present a NLP-related paper (2 hrs).
  • Projects review: evaluation of students’ projects at the end of the course (2 hrs).