Engineering researchers UCBM develop an online portal with educational content
31 March, 2021 - Biomedical and medical informatics: an increasingly current interdisciplinary field if one thinks of the rapid development that the digital technologies in all sectors and especially in that of health. The innovative challenge - made even more necessary by the pandemic emergency - is to make health care and services increasingly personalized, precise, reliable and safe.
To answer the demand for expertise in this field, within the Erasmus+ programme Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, together with 8 other European universities and 4 industrial partners, established the Center of Biomedical and Medical Informatics (CeBMI). The goal is to develop a online portal with free educational content available to the international community by 2022. Both university and post-graduate students and professionals from the business world will have access to a program divided into modules dedicated to various topics: Image and Signal Processing, Medical Simulation, Data Mining, Healthcare Reliability, Health Information Systems, eHealth and Telemedicine, AI to Support Decision Making, Educational Software in Virtual Reality, Medical Background, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics.
Specifically, a UCBM - the only Italian university in the network - has the task of developing teaching materials on data mining, in a module based on knowledge of probability, statistics and linear algebra to enable learners to process and extract knowledge from data. Paolo Soda, Associate Professor of Information Processing Systems, coordinates the project for UCBM, in which the Ing. Ermanno Cordelli e Rosa Sicilia of the Processing Systems and Bioinformatics Research Unit and achievement Dean of Engineering and President of the Master's Degree Course in Intelligent Systems Engineering, prof. Giulio Iannello. “Also through the activation of a dedicated degree course - Intelligent Systems Engineering -, UCBM is at the forefront of artificial intelligence and the use of big data, which are now fundamental for strategic planning and the identification of new business opportunities. Ultimately, essential skills to put technology at the service of improving people's quality of life, starting with their health"explained Prof. Soda.
The simultaneous participation of universities and companies in the project represents the ideal model for effectively responding to the need for integrated medicine with information technology, with a significant contribution to the preparation of interdisciplinary profiles, increasingly in demand by the market.
