With increasing interest in applying Machine Learning methods in different domains, this course provides a platform to develop and work on projects with the student’s own data using Machine Learning methods, with supervisory support from the course teachers. The data sources can range from pictures, scans, videos or graphs to tabulated measurements in text or digital formats; all related to some scientific investigation. Ideally, the size and complexity of the data is such that manual analysis is either not feasible or tedious to perform. Typical analysis within the scope of this course could be automated quantification of objects or quantities of interests in the data (for example, image analysis), or combining different types of data to address a common research question (like combining text and images), or building predictive models using Machine Learning. The course output will be a manuscript written like a research paper – that will ideally be submitted to a journal following the course.
No later than 2 weeks prior to the course, the participants should submit a synopsis with a short description of the data and the desired outcome. This will allow us to consider whether to plan plenum lectures on some specific analysis method.
We invite PhD students from all SCIENCE departments, but some experience with programming is required. The number of participants is limited to 20, and priority will be given to students who previously followed another Data Science Lab course (Introduction to Python or R, Statistical Methods I, and particularly Machine Learning and Imaging Methods).
After course completion the students are expected to be able to:Knowledge:- Describe the analysis methods used by others for similar problems.
- Describe relevant, alternative approaches for solving the problem.Skills:- Develop/adapt/extend a computer-based software method for quantification and/or analysis of their own data.
Compentences:
- Formulate scientific questions from their PhD project in terms of research hypotheses.- Interpret the results of their computer-based analysis in relation to their PhD project.
This depends on the individual project.
For potential background literature, see the course pages for the Introduction to Python, Introduction to R, Statistical Methods for the Biosciences I, and particularly Machine Learning and Imaging Methods
The course days include traditional lectures but will to a large degree be a workshop setting where the students work with their projects with the lecturers available for help, feedback, and suggestions. The participants will also have individual supervision meetings with the course lecturers. The projects must result in research article style reports and be presented before the entire class at the concluding examination seminar. The projects may be done using software packages of the participant’s own choice. The lecturers have particular experience with the software frameworks Python and Matlab.
Course workload category Hours Course Preparation 7.00 Lectures 12.00 Theory exercises 6.00 Project work 90.00 Exam 6.00 _____________________________________ Sum 123.00
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