BIODS 276 (CS 286)
Advanced Topics in Computer Vision and Biomedicine

Fall 2024-2025

Course Description

This course in artificial intelligence will provide a deep dive into advanced computer vision techniques for reasoning about visual data, and their real-world use in biomedicine. We will cover current cutting-edge models including different families of vision foundation models from representation learners to diffusion and generative models, and both vision-only and vision-language models. We will also cover considerations for real-world use, including model size and computation, training and inference settings, and training data, focusing on applications in biomedicine. Students will be actively engaged in studying and analyzing recent advancements through written analyses, class discussions, and a final project. This course is considered an advanced course and students should be comfortable with deep learning and computer vision at the level of CS231N or BIODS220.

Instructor

syyeung@stanford.edu
OH: 10-12am Tuesdays
Location: Packard 361


Assistant Instructor

xhanwang@stanford.edu
OH: 4-6pm Thursdays
Location: Packard 339 except 11/7 at Packard 318


Teaching Assistant

jmhb@stanford.edu
OH: 4-6pm Mondays
Location: Packard 339 except 11/11 at Packard 318


Staff Email

biods276-aut2024-staff@lists.stanford.edu

Course Time and Location

Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:30-11:50 AM
Most days: Alway Building, Room M114
Except on 10/9 in Alway Building, Room M108
And on 10/21 and 11/4 at CCSR Building Room 4205

Prerequisites

This course is considered an advanced course and students should be comfortable with deep learning and computer vision at the level of CS231N or BIODS220.