Pattern Recognition

General info

Date 

17 Jan 2011 - 21 Jan 2011 

Location

TU Delft

Website

http://www.nbic.nl/education/nbic-phd-school/cours...

Keywords

pattern recognition

Teacher(s)

Ridder, de Dick Dr. ir.

Contact(s)

Gelder, van Celia Dr.

Description

Course Description

The course introduces basic techniques from the fields of pattern recognition and machine learning to solve bioinformatics problems. After having followed this course, a student should have an overview of basic pattern recognition techniques and be able to recognize what method is most applicable to classification problems (s)he encounters in bioinformatics applications.

Target audience

PhD students with a background in bioinformatics, computer science or a related field; a working knowledge of basic statistics and linear algebra is assumed. Preparation material on statistics and linear algebra will be distributed before the course, to be studied by students missing the required background.

Course Programme

Many problems in bioinformatics require classification: prediction of the class to which a certain object (i.e. a gene, protein, cell, patient) belongs. Some examples of classification problems in bioinformatics are gene finding (sequence in, gene presence out), diagnostics (microarray data in, diagnosis out), data integration (measurements in, probability of interaction out), etc. In this course, we will introduce basic techniques from the fields of pattern recognition and machine learning to solve such problems. We will introduce the pattern recognition pipeline: measuring, feature extraction and selection, classification and evaluation. For a large number of the methods discussed, we will turn to recent bioinformatics literature for examples.

Course Fees 

• For other PhD students the course fee is 250 Euro
• 500 Euro for other researchers (non-PhD students) in the non-profit sector (universities)
• 1000 Euro for other researchers (non-PhD students) working in the profit sector (industry)

The fee includes course materials, lunch and drinks.

Registration

 You can register online. Registration deadline is December 17, 2010. Maximum number of participants is 40, so register soon to be sure of a course seat!

NBIC PhD School

This course is part of the Education Programme of the NBIC PhD School. The NBIC PhD School offers training and education for PhD students in bioinformatics. More information about the latest developments of the NBIC PhD School can also be found on this website.

More information

For more information about the course programme you can contact Dick de Ridder. For more information about registration or logistics you can contact Celia van Gelder (NBIC Education).