For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IPH4002 | Artificial Neural Circuits | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | Intelligent Precision Healthcare Convergence | English | Yes | |
| In this course, students will learn the rising domain of artificial neural circuits. First, students will learn why artificial neural circuit is needed and how it is different from the original neural circuits. Second, students will learn how to design artificial neural circuits. Third, students will learn how the artificial neural circuits are utilized and how they interface with the original neural circuits. | |||||||||
| IPH4003 | Recent advancements in systems neuroscience focusing on decision making | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | Intelligent Precision Healthcare Convergence | - | No | |
| Decision-making is a complex mental process based on past memory and current sensory information. In this course, students will learn how the underlying mechanisms of decision making focusing on the experimental results from animal studies. In every class, the instructor will give a short explanation about the methods or concepts, followed by 2-3 paper presentations and discussion. | |||||||||
| IPH4004 | Affective Neuroscience Basics | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | Intelligent Precision Healthcare Convergence | English | Yes | |
| Joyful, happy, sad, angry, disgusting, painful, bored... we experience these emotions all the time, and these experience keep changing every moment. How can we "define" emotions? How can we "study" emotions? What are the "bodily factors" that influence emotions? How we "measure" bodily response of emotions? What are the "brain representations" of emotions? Are emotions same with affect or feelings? How can we model the "dynamics" of emotions? What are the underlying problems in emotional disorders, like anxiety and depression? etc. There are so many interesting questions about emotions. In this class, you will learn some key topics of affective neuroscience. | |||||||||
| IPH5001 | Medical Imaging Systems in Precision Medicine | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-8 | Intelligent Precision Healthcare Convergence | - | No |
| Advanced medical imaging systems such as MRI, CT, Ultrasound, PET etc are cornerstones of precision medicine in modern medical systems, playing a decisive role of accurate diagnosis and monitoring after treatment of diseases. In this course, we will discuss how they work in principle and how they can be used for clinical applications as well. | |||||||||
| IPH5002 | MRI-Based Diagnoses in Precision Medicine | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-8 | Intelligent Precision Healthcare Convergence | - | No |
| We can’t overexaggerate the importance of accurate diagnosis of diseases in precision medicine. In a modern medical system, in particular, advanced medical imaging systems play a critical role for the accurate diagnosis. Among them, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has advantages of providing high spatial resolution with various image contrasts and no radiation exposure over other imaging modalities. In this course, we will discuss a variety of MRI-based diagnostic techniques especially from a standpoint of both engineering and clinics. | |||||||||
| IPH5003 | Medical Image Analysis | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-8 | Intelligent Precision Healthcare Convergence | - | No |
| Precision medicine is one of the most promising future paradigms in medicine, providing low cost and high output for patients. With changing trends in medicine, it is very important to utilize a large scale of medical imaging data for analysis and diagnosis of pathological diseases.Thus, in this subject, we deal with signal modelling and corresponding optimization methods in various medical imaging applications such as vascular system, glymphatic system, perfusion, diffusion, etc. | |||||||||
| IPH5004 | Signal Processing for Intelligent Medical Imaging | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-8 | Intelligent Precision Healthcare Convergence | - | No |
| Precision medicine is one of the most promising future paradigms in medicine, providing low cost and high output for patients. To cope with these trends in medicine, in this subject we introduce to graduate students how to synergetically combine existing signal processing disciplines with machine learning strategies. | |||||||||
| IPH5005 | Affective Neuroscience for Precision Medicine | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Intelligent Precision Healthcare Convergence | - | No | |
| Joyful, happy, sad, angry, disgusting, painful, bored... we experience these emotions all the time, and these experience keep changing every moment. How can we "define" emotions? How can we "study" emotions? What are the "bodily factors" that influence emotions? How we "measure" bodily response of emotions? What are the "brain representations" of emotions? In this class, you will first learn methodologies for affective neuroscience (focusing on fMRI), and learn some key topics of affective neuroscience, esp. related to precision medicine. | |||||||||
| IPH5006 | Basic Statistics for Precision Medicine | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Intelligent Precision Healthcare Convergence | - | No | |
| Data are everywhere. Data science already became a key element in many research and industrial areas. The primary aim of this course is to learn basic concepts and skills for data analysis, including concepts of random variables, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, linear modeling, data visualization, etc., preparing you for your life after the graduation in this data-are-everywhere age. However, this is not the only aim of this class. Statistics goes beyond just data analysis, I believe. Statistics is a way of thinking and reasoning. It helps with scientific reasoning and critical thinking. Thus, I hope this class could provide you with some useful tips for scientific thinking and reasoning. | |||||||||
| IPH5007 | Biopolymers and precision medicine | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Intelligent Precision Healthcare Convergence | English | Yes | |
| This class introduces biopolymer capable of mimicking microenvironments of human tissues in precision medicine. We understand the engineering strategy of a polymeric formulation similar to human tissues through controlling mechanical and physicochemical properties of the biopolymers.In addition, we learn analytical tools for polymeric formulations and the chemical bonds involved in the polymers. | |||||||||
| IPH5008 | Advanced instrumental analysis of biomaterials | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Intelligent Precision Healthcare Convergence | - | No | |
| In this class, we learn instrumental analysis for biomaterials to understand their structure, morphology and mechanical properties in material science. Our aims include 1) to understand principles of instrumental analysis for biological/chemical/medical materials and 2) to learn how to choose bio/chemical analytical tools for research. This class is “Flipped class”. Every class includes discussion time to solve example questions regarding biomaterial research. | |||||||||
| IPH5009 | Advanced Nano-Bio Materials | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Intelligent Precision Healthcare Convergence | - | No | |
| Students will learn about the diagnosis and treatment technologies of disease using nano-scale materials possessing unique optical, electronic, and mechanical properties, and will discuss the potential materials that be used in precision medicine. | |||||||||
| IPH5010 | Advanced Drug Delivery System for Precision Healthcare | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Intelligent Precision Healthcare Convergence | - | No | |
| Drug delivery systems have been developed that effectively deliver therapeutic or diagnostic agents to specific areas of action, effectively treating disease that is difficult to treat without serious side effects. This course introduces various drug delivery systems in the field of precision healthcare for low-molecular drugs, proteins and genes. | |||||||||
| IPH5011 | Human brain mapping | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Intelligent Precision Healthcare Convergence | - | No | |
| Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is one of the main imaging techniques to produce medial imaging data for prediction and diagnosis in precision medicine. This course will focus on how fMRI is used to understand human brain function. We will examine what fMRI is, how the machine works, and how fMRI data is generated and processed. Lectures and hands-on labs will be combined. By learning principles, experimental designs, analysis methods, and sample applications, students are expected to be better equipped to understand the literature in MR-based neuroimaging and to conduct their own studies. | |||||||||
| IPH5012 | Cognitive Neuroscience and Precision Medicine | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Intelligent Precision Healthcare Convergence | - | No | |
| To apply precision medicine methods to treatment and prevention of cognitive disorders an understanding of the cognitive and neural mechanisms that underlie human mental processes is required. This course will provide students an understanding of human cognition and behaviors by exploring current issues and findings in the field of psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI. Topics include sensory perception, attention, memory, language, emotion, social cognition, and cognitive control. Students will read and discuss the current research findings in the field and develop research ideas of their own. | |||||||||