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SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY / FACULTY OF MEDICINE
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BASES OF BIOSTATISTICS AND INFORMATICS
Tutor: Dr. István Voszka
Lecture (1.5 hours/week) Practice (2 hours/week)
1. Introduction Graphical representation of functions
2. Role of „change” in theory and The most important functions and their
in practice representation by computer
3. Descriptive statistics Use of excel tables
4. Elements of probability calculus Mean, standard deviation, variance,
standard error
5. Probability calculus and statistics Descriptive statistics
6. Principles of hypothesis testing Hypothesis testing 1.: t-tests
7. Parametric and non-parametric tests Hypothesis testing 2.: non-parametric tests
for comparison of two groups
8. Comparison of more groups, Hypothesis testing 3.: Mann-Whitney
analysis of variance U-test
9. Examination of dependence relations Analysis of variance
of variables
10. Evaluation of diagnostic tests Categorical variables, contingency table
11. Human body as signal source, Regression analysis
signal processing
12. Concept of information, databases Calculation of correlation
13. Clinical databases Bioinformatical databases
14. Evidence based medicine, role of Publication databases, clinical databases
mathematical logics in diagnostics
MEDICAL BIOPHYSICS I.
Tutor: Dr. István Voszka
First Semester
Week Lecture (1.5 hours per week) Laboratory (2 hours per week)
1 Radiations (basic concepts) Laboratory safety rules
2 Properties of electromagnetic radiations; Resonance
wave and corpuscular nature
3 Attenuation of radiation Emission spectroscopy. Light sources
4 Luminescence and its applications Spectrophotometry
5 Lasers and their medical applications Optical lenses; light microscope
6 Thermal radiation, thermography. Detection of nuclear radiations
Biological effects of light
7 Production and spectrum of X-radiation Oscilloscope
Cyclotron; Linear accelerator;
8 Attenuation of X-radiation, interactions Special light microscopes
X-ray diagnostics
9 Atomic structure; Radioactive decay law Optics of the eye
Gamma-radiation and its detection
10 Radiotherapy, radiosurgery; Polarimeter
Isotope diagnostics