Medical Engineering

General Information

Study Program: Master of IT Engineering (M_ITE)

ECTS credits: 5

Lecture term: winter semester

Language: English

Focus of this lecture

Students understand the importance of the fields of engineering and computer science for medicine and the impact of computational image analysis in medical applications. They know the different physical working principles used for different medical imaging devices and the corresponding main algorithms used for computing images from these devices.
Students know techniques used for computer assisted surgery. They have further basic knowledge about medical informatics. Medical informatics is the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care. This field deals with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine.