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Admission at Polytechnique

https://www.polymtl.ca/futur/es/admission

Requirements for Polytechnique

MSc

• Details of the program on the Polymtl website.

• The rules say that “At most 6 credits can be undergraduate courses and at least 8 credits must be courses in the field of biomedical engineering or other and approved by the CPÉS”, but this is a relaxed rules. Courses in computer science, deep learning, etc. are accepted.

• For exemption of additional fees as foreign student, you need at least 6 credits completed, of grad courses at Polytechnique Montréal.

Writing your thesis

See this link.

Jury

Please refer to the Règlements généraux des études supérieures (53.4 COMPOSITION ET NOMINATION DU JURY).

PhD

• Details of the program on the Polymtl website.

• Candidates who already took courses in a previous graduate program (eg: Master) can obtain an exemption for some of the courses listed in the “Plan de cours” at Polytechnique. For more details, see article 73.1.1. To request the exemption, ask the form to Amal Bennani (biomedical-es@polymtl.ca). The procedure is to: (i) Fill up the “Plan de cours” with ONLY the courses to take, (ii) Fill up the document “EXEMPTION DE CREDITS DE COURS”, and list the courses that were taken at a previous graduate program, (iii) Send both documents to Amal.

Important

There exist an agreement between universities across Quebec, called CREPUQ, that allow students to transfer academic credits between institutions. So for example, you could attend a course at UdeM or McGill and receive the credits at Polytechnique Montreal as part of your gradutate program.

Writing your thesis

See this link.

Jury

Please refer to the Règlements généraux des études supérieures (76.4 COMPOSITION ET NOMINATION DU JURY).

Medical imaging

Also see this list of Bio-imaging courses offered by Quebec Universities.

Polytechnique Montréal

Code	Title / Notes	Lang.	Prof.
GBM8378	Principes d’imagerie biomédicale (3 credits)	Français	Julien Cohen-Adad
GBM6103A	Traitement d’images et signaux biomédicaux	Français	Goussard
GBM8770	Traitement numérique d’images médicales	Français	Benjamin De Leener
GBM6330	Technologies biomédicales émergentes (3 credits)	Français	Nikola Stikov
ELE8812	Traitement et analyse d’images (3 credits)	Français	Eva Alonso Ortiz
GBM6953EE	C.SPEC. BRAINHACK SCHOOL (3 credits)	English	Eva Alonso Ortiz

Université de Montréal

Code	Title / Notes	Lang.	Prof.
PSY6983	Projet en sciences des données neuronales (VERY GOOD!!!! Coding for open-science with neuro application. Who took it: Andjela Dimitrijevic) https://school.brainhackmtl.org/fr/	Français
PHY2300	Physique médicale	Français	Beaudoin
PHY6985	Imagerie en physique médicale 1	Français
PHY6990	Imagerie en physique médicale 2	Français
INF6141	Reconnaissance de formes (Plan de cours)	Français
RAD6005	Introduction à l’IRMf	Français
NSC6084	Neurosciences computationnelles Plan de cours	Français

McGill

Code	Title / Notes	Lang.	Prof.
MDPH 607	Introduction to Medical Imaging (⚠️ it is important to contact the program administrator where the course is held to ensure that the request for inter-university CREPUQ is processed).	English	Ives Levesque
BMDE 660	Advanced MR Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Brain (MR theoretical, need to put in extra hours. Learn a lot. Who took it: Nadia Blostein, Andjela Dimitrijevic)	English	Christine Tardif James Patrick Near David Rudko
ECSE 529	Computer and Biological Vision (Fall 2013)	English	Martin Levine
NEUR 603	Computational Neuroscience (Winter 2014) Curriculum 2014	English	Chris Pack Amir Shmuel Daniel Guitton
NEUR 570	Human Brain Imaging (Fall 2013) Curriculum 2013	English	Shmuel Schweinhardt Naryanan
BMDE 650	Advanced Medical Imaging (Winter 2014) Curriculum 2013	English	Louis Collins
BMDE 610	Functional Neuroimaging Fusion (Winter 2014)	English	Christophe Grova
NEUR 602	Current Topics in Neuroscience	English	NEUR 602 Current Topics in Neuroscience
QLSC 612	Fundamentals for Neuro Data Science (1-week 8am-5pm summer intensive. Manageable and pairs well with Brainhack summer course. Who took it: Andjela Dimitrijevic)	English

Machine Learning / Statistics

Polytechnique Montréal

Code	Title / Notes	Lang.	Prof.
INF8245E	Machine Learning	English	Sarath Chandar
INF8250E	Reinforcement Learning	English	Sarath Chandar
MTH6312	Méthodes statistiques d’apprentissage (trés théorique)	Français	Partovi Nia, Vahid
MTH6305A	Reconnaissance de formes: approches statistiques	Français
INF6953H	C.SPÉC.: Deep Learning	English	Chris Pal
MTH3302	Probabilité et statistiques pour intelligence artificielle	Français	Jonathan Jalbert
INF8215	Intelligence artif.: méthodes et algorithmes	Français	Daniel Aloise
INF8225	I.A.: tech. probabilistes et d’apprentissage (Cours intense. Qui l’a pris: Andréanne Lemay)	Français	Chris Pal

Université de Montréal

Code	Title / Notes	Lang.	Prof
BIO 2043B	Statistique pratique pour sciences de la vie First 4 courses not really relevant Last 4 courses interesting (Pearson correlation, Kendall correlation, Simple and Multiple Regression, ANOVA)	Français
IFT6268	Self-Supervised Representation Learning	English	Aaron Courville
IFT6269	Probabilistic Graphical Models (Given in Fall. Math heavy, assignment with proofs + coding exercises. Really interesting course! Who took: Naga Karthik)	English	Simon Lacoste-Julien
IFT6135	Representation Learning (Given in Winter. Intense course but very rewarding. Who took: Naga Karthik)	English	Aaron Courville
IFT6167	Neural Scaling Laws and Foundation Models outline (Easy course, project-based. Who took: Naga Karthik)	English	Irina Rish
IFT6760	Seminars in deep learning	?	?

Mcgill

Code	Title / Notes	Lang.	Prof.
BMDE 520	Machine Learning for Biomedical Data outline (Assignment heavy, no CV application Who took: Rohan Banerjee)	English	Danilo Bzdok
COMP 551	Applied Machine Learning outline (great overview of classical ML but not much DL. No CV. Who took it: Nadia Blostein )	English	Yue Li (Fall), Reihaneh Rabbany (Winter)

Computer Vision

Polytechnique Montréal

Code	Title / Notes	Lang.	Prof.
GBM6700	Reconstruction 3D à partir d’images médicales Curriculum 2013	Français	Cheriet

Université de Montréal

Code	Title / Notes	Lang.	Prof.
IFT6145	3D Vision (Vision tridimensionnelle)	French	Sebastien Roy

McGill

Electrical and Computer Engineering Course List: http://www.mcgill.ca/ece/programs/coursesoffered/500

Code	Title / Notes	Lang.	Prof.
ECSE 683	Topics in Vision and Robotics (Fall 2013)	English	Frank Ferrie
ECSE 626	Statistical Methods in Computer Vision Slides 2019 (Requires a fair bit of involvement but very interesting and cutting edge. Who took it: Charley Gros, Rohan Banerjee, Kiri Stern)	English	Tal Arbel
COMP 424	Introduction to Artificial Intelligence	English	Doina Precup
COMP 558	Fundamentals of Computer Vision (Fall 2013)	English	Kaleem Siddiqi
COMP 766	Shape Analysis in Computer Vision (Winter 2014)	English	Kaleem Siddiqi

Programming & Software

• INF1010 - Programmation orienté objet (C++)

Biomedical

Polytechnique Montréal

Code	Title / Notes	Lang.	Prof.
GBM8871	Biomicrosystèmes (time-consuming)	Français	Thomas Gervais
GBM8802	Biophotonique (time-consuming)	Français	Boudoux
GBM8605	Médecine régénératrice & nanomédecine (not hard, a bit time-consuming)	Français	Buchmann
PHS3210	Spectroscopie (difficult)	Français	Sébastien Francoeur

Instrumentation / RF Coils

Polytechnique Montréal

Code	Title / Notes	Lang.	Prof.
ELE1600A	Circuit électrique	Français	Chahé Nerguizian
GBM2330	Instrumentation et mesures biomédicales	Français	Nikola Stikov
ELE6503	Dispositifs et circuits actifs micro-ondes	Français	Jean-Jacques Laurin
ELE6506	Antennes et propagation	Français	Jean-Jacques Laurin
ELE4501A	Circuits et systèmes communications radiofréquences (laboratoire simulation ADS Agilent)	Français	Ke Wu
ELE6502	Instrumentation automatisée en micro-ondes	Français	Cevdet Akyel
ELE8500	Circuits Passifs Micro-ondes (laboratoires d’initiation aux analyseurs de réseau et de spectre)	Français	Ke Wu

McGill

Code	Title / Notes	Lang.	Prof.
BMDE501	Selected Topics in Biomedical Engineering (3 credits)	English
BMDE503	Biomedical Instrumentation (3 credits)	English

Language Courses

Polytechnique Montréal

Code	Title / Notes	Lang.	Prof.
SSH3351	Anglais pour ingenieurs 1	Français
SSH3352	Anglais pour ingenieurs 2	Français

McGill

Code	Title / Notes	Lang.	Prof.
Graphos	Academic writing	English

Ethics

• SSH5503 - Éthique appliquée au génie biomédical (Bernard Lapierre)

• Formation en ligne - Québec

• Formation en ligne - Canada

• Formation en ligne - États-Unis - NIH