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Undergraduate: CIS Minor Degree

The Department of Computer Science offers a Minor in Computer Integrated Surgery (CIS) for full time undergraduate students at Johns Hopkins. The minor is particularly well suited for students interested in computer integrated surgery issues who are majoring in a variety of disciplines, including: biomedical engineering (BME), computer science (CS), computer engineering (CompE), electrical engineering (EE) and mechanical engineering (ME). The minor provides formal recognition of the depth and strength of a student’s knowledge of the concepts fundamental to CIS beyond the minimal requirements of his/her major.

The Computer Science Department of the Whiting School of Engineering is responsible for the minor in Computer Integrated Surgery (CIS). In order to minor in CIS, a student will require a minor adviser from the National Science Foundation funded Engineering Research Center for Computer Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (ERC CISST). Current faculty members available as advisers include: Professors Russell Taylor (CS), Greg Hager (CS), Jerry Prince (ECE), Ralph Etienne-Cummings (ECE), and Allison Okamura (ME).

To satisfy the requirements for the Minor in CIS, a student must have a fundamental background in computer programming and computer science, sufficient mathematical background and also take a minimum of six courses (with a total of at least 18 credits, earning at least a C- in each course) directly related to concepts relevant to CIS. These six CIS courses must include three core courses, which provide the student with the fundamental basis for CIS, and three upper level courses (300 level or above), to allow the student to pursue an advanced CIS topic in depth.

Required Fundamental Computer Science Courses

1. Introduction to Programming in C/C++ (600.109)
2. Data Structures (600.226)

OR

1. Equivalent experience determined by your advisor.

Required Fundamental Mathematics Courses

1. Calculus I (110.106 or 110.108)
2. Calculus II (110.107 or 110.109)
3. Calculus III (110.202 or 100.211-212)
4. Linear Algebra (550.291, 110.201, or 110.211-12)

Required Fundamental Computer Integrated Surgery Courses

1. Computer Integrated Surgery I (600.445)
2. A design course in CIS. Either Computer Integrated Surgery II (600.446) or a design course in BME, ECE, or ME with substantial CIS content approved by the student’s faculty advisor in the CIS minor.
3. One course in imaging, chosen from the following:
   1. Computer Vision (600.461)
   2. Image Processing and Analysis I (520.414)
   3. Medical Imaging Systems (520.432 or 580.472)

OR

1. One course in robotics, chosen from the following:
   1. Robotic Sensors and Actuators (530.420)
   2. Mechatronics (530.421)
   3. Introduction to Robotics (530.646)

Three advanced specialty courses chosen in consultation with the student’s faculty advisor in the CIS minor that define a topic relevant to CIS (such as CIS instrumentation, CIS imaging, or the mechanics of CIS). Note that these courses must be chosen together with the other three required CIS courses (600.445, the CIS design course and the CIS imaging/robotics course) to include at least one biomedical course and must be selected from the following courses (with the consent of an advisor, an equivalent course may be substituted):

• Biomedical Sensors (580.470)
• Computer Vision (600.461)
• Haptic Systems for Teleoperation and Virtual Reality (530.651)
• Image Processing and Analysis I (520.414)
• Introduction to Robotics (530.646)
• Mechanics of Living Tissues (580.450)
• Mechatronics (530.421)
• Medical Imaging Systems (580.472)
• Principles of the Design of Biomedical Instrumentation (580.471)
• Robot Sensors and Actuators (530.420)

• CIS Minor Permissions Form (DOC)