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Medical Informatics and Telemedicine Thesis Candidate Subjects


A.A. 2002 - 2003


Semantic queries of bio-images repositories: the case of the Unified Medical Language System
applied to the Visible Human Dataset (UMLS & VHD).

In cooperation with: National Library of Medicine - National Institute of Health - Bethesda, MD, USA,
and Istituto di Anatomia dell’Università di Milano, Italy.

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Medical Visual Knowledge: definitions, structures and implementations.
Application of the emerging elements to detect and to structure the visual knowledge in medicine (MVK).

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Databases for the Human Genome Project: multi-database queries by data-mining techniques applied
to target instances, within environments accessible also via Internet (DB & HGP).

In cooperation with: Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milano, Italy.

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Construction of repositories of bio-images from con-focal laser microscopy: tools for the classification
and quantitative analysis of bi-dimensional characteristics useful in designing, building, and using
repositories of bio-images (BiDB & Confoc).

In cooperation with: Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milano, Italy.

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E-Health sustainable: Internet services for medicine and health care: from the definitions of user models
to the project desirable performances, to the revenue models, to the implementation, and to the service start-up (E-Health).

In cooperation with: CILEA - Consorzio Interuniversitario Lombardo per l’I&CT and
Dipartimento di Economia e Produzione of the Politecnico di Milano.

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Teaching Laboratory of Digital Medicine: On the Internet, from evaluation of the available material
to the construction of effective teaching aids dedicated to the illustration and evaluation phases (MedDD).

In cooperation with: National Library of Medicine - National Institute of Health - Bethesda, MD, USA;
Istituto di Anatomia dell’Università di Milano, Italy; and others.

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Health Information Systems: Benchmarking of specialized packages (Unified Booking Services,
Departmental Electronic Medical Records, Digital Imaging and COmmunications in Medicine (DICOM) systems, etc.) (HIS).

In cooperation with specifically interested hospitals and clinics.

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