Section outline

  •   Date Topic References Additional Material
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     08/04/2026 (14-16)

    Deep Learning Fundamentals I

    deep neural networks; gradient issues; activation functions; normalization and regularization; optimization

    [SD] Ch. 4, Sect 7.1, 7.3, 7.5,  
    14  09/04/2026 (14-16)

    Deep Learning Fundamentals II

    neural autoencoders; unsupervised deep learning; autoencoding tasks in healthcare (anomaly detection, compression, denoising)

    [SD] Sect. 6.2-6.5, Sect. 9.3

    [6] Survey on autoencoders

    [7,8] Surveys on autoencoders use in healthcare

    15 14/04/2026 (14-16)

    Convolutional Neural Networks I

    Introduction to medical imaging; basic CNN elements; 

    [SD] Chapter 10  
    16 15/04/2026 (14-16)

    Convolutional Neural Networks II

    CNN architectures; medical imaging tasks

    [SD] Chapter 10

    [AI4H] Pg. 643-655

    Additional readings

    [9] Augmentation techniques for medical imaging

    [10] Survival analysis with CNNs

    [11] Large-scale medical image segmentation dataset and application

    Software

    nnU-net - Well engineered framework for low-code medical segmentation tasks

    L8 16/04/2026 (14-16) Lab 7: CNNs for medical imaging data