Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (CERT)

This program was approved for students entering the university in the Summer 2024–Spring 2025 catalog year. For more information about catalog year, go to Catalog Year Information.

Graduate Certificate in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Unit: Speed School of Engineering (GS)
Department: Bioengineering
Academic Plan Code(s): AIM_CGR, AIM_CGRO

Program Information

This program can be completed in a traditional classroom format or entirely online.

The graduate certificate in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine offers students training in the application of computational methods and machine learning techniques to the analysis of medical problems. The focus of the program is an emphasis on the mastery of skills required to analyze medical data related to patients, which include big data, medical imaging, physiological and disease progression modeling, experimental (clinical and laboratory), and healthcare information. This program will benefit healthcare through the use of modern computational techniques to manage and investigate the ever-increasing volume of patient data and the wide variety of diseases. Students will acquire skills and knowledge in computation, modeling and simulation, machine learning, medical data management, and advanced statistical analysis, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration.

The courses available for this program may include assignments and projects in collaboration with researchers at the School of Medicine. In particular, Bioengineering faculty have established collaborations with the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute, the Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center, the Brown Cancer Center, the Center for Predictive Medicine, and the Departments of Oncology and Radiology.

Certificate Summary

The admission standards for the Graduate Certificate program in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine are as follows:

1. All admission applications for the Graduate Certificate program shall include:
   1. A completed graduate application for the Graduate School
   2. Application fee
   3. Official transcript certifying at least a bachelor's degree.  All transcripts not in English must be certified as authentic and translated verbatim into English.
2. The minimum requirement for admission is the baccalaureate degree or its equivalent from an accredited institution, or current enrollment in a graduate Speed School program, and completion of an introductory computer programming course or previous exposure to programming. Students without this course are encouraged to apply but may be asked to take a pre-requisite course in computer programming. 
3. The successful applicant will typically have an undergraduate grade point average of 3.0 or above (on a 4.0 scale).
4. International students whose primary language is not English must show English language proficiency. Applicants must either submit an official TOEFL, IELTS or Duolingo score, or demonstrate a degree award from an acceptable English language institution.  The successful applicant will typically have a total TOEFL score of 79 or higher, an overall IELTS score of 6.5 or higher or Duolingo score of 105.

Students can enroll in a Graduate Certificate program either as a non-degree seeking student or as a student simultaneously enrolled in a graduate degree program and this graduate certificate program.  Students who wish to earn a graduate degree must meet all admission criteria for the degree program.

All students enrolled in a graduate certificate program are expected to make steady and satisfactory progress toward the completion of the certificate. Students who are not enrolled for a period of more than 12 months will be considered to have withdrawn from the certificate program. Students who seek to return after such a period of time must contact the graduate program director.

The following certificate requirements are mandatory of all Graduate Certificate candidates:

1. The Certificate Program of Study must be completed with a 3.0 GPA or better for all graduate courses used to satisfy certificate requirements.
2. Graduate certificate students must take all certificate course work at the University of Louisville. No transfer credits will be accepted towards a graduate certificate.

The Bioengineering Department has established the following grade policy for the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Graduate Certificate program:

1. A student cannot receive a C+ or lower grade in courses counting towards the certificate. 

Additionally, all program requirements for this certificate must be completed within three years from admission into the program.

Program Requirements

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CSE 694 Special Topics options:

1. Current topics in Bioinformatics
2. Topics in Advanced Machine Learning Theory & Methods