Lecture, two hours; laboratory, two hours; outside study, eight hours. Requisite: course 223B. Designed for graduate students. Programming laboratory to support coursework in other medical and imaging informatics core curriculum courses. Exposure to programming concepts for medical applications, with focus on basic abstraction techniques used to extract meaningful features from medical text and imaging data and visualize results. Integrated with topics presented in courses 224B and M226 to reinforce concepts presented with practical experience. Projects focus on medical information retrieval, knowledge representation, and visualization. Letter grading.