This page collects master’s and doctoral theses related to medical informatics and digital health from Estonian universities.
doctoral theses
A domain-specific framework for semantic interoperability of health data
Doctoral thesis
Author: Igor Bossenko
University: Tallinn University of Technology
Year: 2025
This doctoral thesis focuses on improving semantic interoperability in healthcare data systems, enabling more effective use of health data for clinical care and research. It introduces the TermX framework, which supports the integration, transformation and interpretation of health data across systems.
Developing computational solutions for personalised medicine
Doctoral thesis
Author: Sulev Reisberg
University: University of Tartu
Year: 2019
This doctoral thesis develops computational methods to support personalised medicine using large-scale health and genetic data. It demonstrates how combining electronic health records with advanced analytics can improve risk prediction and clinical decision-making.
Data Sharing and Shared Workflow in Medical Imaging
Doctoral thesis
Author: Peeter Ross
University: Tallinn University of Technology
Year: 2011
This doctoral thesis explores how data sharing and shared workflows can improve medical imaging and radiology services across organisations. It presents practical teleradiology projects and introduces models for secure, interoperable and efficient use of imaging data in healthcare systems
master theses
Tallinn University of Technology
Master theses:
- Hanna Kätlin Ardel (2025) Enabling the Transformation of Health Data Between HL7 FHIR and OMOP CDM
- Jane-Ly Buhvestova (2025) Implementation, Validation and Verification of RDB2RDF and RDF2RDB Transformations for Health Data
- Ilnur Hairullin (2025) Assessing Market Desirability of a Platform for Pathology Consultations: Demand, Adoption and Sustainability
- Maarja Helena Elisabeth Hoop (2025) Validation of Automatically Structured Medical Texts
- Scharlett Hansson (2025) Metamodel Development in Data Catalogue Using Immunisation Report Dataset
- Ksenija Ivanova (2025) Development of a Miniature Wireless Telemetric Sensor and its Application for Positioning Devices in a Hospital
- Secil Matasova (2025) High-Quality Data for Public Health Decisions: An Umbrella Review and Framework for Medical Registry Data Quality Assessment
- Rainer Randmaa (2025) Transformation of HL7 CDA Documents of the Estonian National Health Information System to the HL7 FHIR Format
- Veera Ruže (2025) AI-Driven Framework for Dynamic Integration of Real-Time Medical Knowledge in Healthcare Systems
- Martin Sooväli (2025) The Journey of Patient-generated Health Data into the Health Information System
- Kirke Asandi (2024) An Overview of the Estonian Health Insurance Funds Reimbursed Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis Service in Estonia and Suggestions for Standardising the Service
- Ege Berk Akgün (2024) Development of an Optical Sensor and Interfacing of Auxiliary Equipment into a Unified System for Comparison of Wrist and Finger Pulse Waveforms
- Herman Matis Eek (2024) Improving Secondary Data Use in Public Health Through Structured Data Capture
- Juri Garanin (2024) Comparison and Analysis of Mapping Languages in Healthcare
- Marina Ivanova (2024) Optimizing the Management of Clinical Terminologies: Analysis of Terminology Servers, Implementation of CTS2 in PostgreSQL and Conversion to FHIR Resources
- Janno Jaal (2024) Threat Modelling for AI/ML-Based Healthcare Systems
- Narmin Aslanova (2023) Implementation of online appointment system in public hospitals in the republic of Azerbaijan
- Silja Elunurm (2023) mHealth Application as a Class I Medical Device: Implementation of MDR Classification Rules in Practice
- Tarvo Erimäe (2023) Analysis and planning of model informed precision dosing information system based on the example of company RightFive
- Ave Hewitt (2023) The Challenges of the Implementation of Digital Health Technologies for Mental Health Services in Children: A Qualitative Approach
- Triin Hirvlaan (2023) Implementing ISO IDMP in Europe: Practical Usage of ISO IDMP Guideline and FHIR Resources for Medicinal Products
- Kristiina Kauer (2023) The Needs of Researchers in the Secondary Use of Health Data
- Erik Dzotsenidze (2022) Generative Adversarial Networks as a Data Augmentation Tool for CNN-based Parkinson’s Disease Diagnostics
- Md Raisul Islam (2022) Classifying medical images on an edge device: a deep learning approach applied to blood cells
- Argo Kikas (2022) The analysis and design of the electronic cancer registry notification information system at the North Estonia Medical Centre
- Kristiina Kuldkepp (2022) Assessment of digital health technologies: Strong structuration theroy approach
- Henry Laur (2022) Automated segmentation and semantic analysis of writing and drawing tests for Parkinson’s disease diagnostics
- Nele Naris (2022) Digital health literacy among Estonian adult citizens: a mixed method study
- Marina Rudenko (2022) Evaluation of the Maturity Level of the German Health Care Sector for openEHR
- Ardo Annist (2021) Analysis and Design of The Software System for Conducting the Competence Assessment of Healthcare Professionals
- Maria Bashir (2021) Assessing barriers and enablers for wearable health technologies to improve data quality in EHR using HL7 FHIR
- Liis Hamburg (2021) Feasibility of maternity record standardization on the example of midwives\ free text entries
- Johannes Horm (2021) Architecture vision of seamless remote patient monitoring in Estonian healthcare
- A K M Shariful Islam (2021) Sheba, a space of action against pregnancy related risk factors: an explainable machine learning approach to improve quality of life for pregnant women
- Karl-Erik Karu (2021) Healthcare Interoperability, its Problems and Suggested Solutions. Proposed Development Criteria for Interoperability and Comparison of Sample Tools
- Brigitha Kask (2021) Multi criteria decision analysis as part of health technology assessment: a case study on metastatic triple-negative breast cancer
- Kristjan Krass (2021) Data quality in health information systems – completeness and timeliness
- Mark Selezenev (2021) Improvement of Data Processing in Estonian National E-Health Information System on the Basis of Lung Cancer Analysis
- Rob Schubert (2021) The European Health Data Space (EHDS) and OpenEHR: Evaluation of Requirements and Principles
- Akbar Snowbar (2021) Chatbot for assisting parents of children with chronic long-term illness
- Olutosin Ajibola Ademola (2020) 3D Deep Multi-Neural Networks Using Serialization and Sigmoid Averaging for Lung Nodule Classification
- Rebecca Temitope Adegunle (2020) Implementation of Workplace Health Promotion Programs: a Qualitative Study on Employers´ Perspectives Using Estonian and Nigerian Organisations
- Tanel Joosep (2020) Architecture and design of a distributed system for secondary medical data
- Reelika Riis (2020) The Feasibility and Barriers of 3D Printing in Medical Applications in Estonia
- Isaac Oluwadare Tinubu (2020) Automatic Detection and Classification of Nodules in Lung CT Scans
- Ivelisse Rodriguez Aguirre (2020) Feasibility Study of Sclerosis Multiple Registry Based on Estonian Health Information System
- Heidi Urmet (2019) Mapping the NICE Evidence Standards Framework and International Expeirences into a Guideline for the Assessment of Mobile Health Solutions in Estonia
- Anni Borkvel (2018) Collecting and analysing patient dose data in paediatric computed tomography
- Thomas-Bairam Toodo (2018) Assessment of parameters from the handwritten sentence test used to diagnose Parkinsons disease
- Cihan Erol (2017) Detection and Classification of Lung Nodules in Computer Tomography Images
- Lingling Yin (2018) Developing an EMR Training Unit for Nursing and Medical Students
- Shuaibu Ali Gombe (2017) 3D Visualization and Segmentation of Lungs Using ITK/VTK/Qt Framework
University of Tartu
Master theses:
- David Avedis Injarabian (2025) Text-Driven Weakly Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- Mai-Liis Vahemäe (2025) Standardized Structuring and Mapping of Immunization Data to Data Exchange Standards Using Logical Data Model
- Teele Kuri (2025) Healthcare Quality Indicators Based on the OMOP Data Model
- Johann Saavaste (2025) Effect on Self-rated Health of Past Health Treatment Services in Estonia
- Kai Tiitsaar (2025) Healthcare Events and Costs in Women With Endometriosis, 2012 – 2019
- Paula Marie Loopere (2025) Calculation of Reference Values for Laboratory Measurements Based on the Estonian Population
- Kermo Saarse (2024) Generalizing Healthcare Events Using Word Vectors
- Oliver-Erik Suik (2024) Generalising Health Events by Using Frequent Itemset Mining
- Kristel Agu (2024) Extraction of Psychosis Prodromal Symptoms from Medical Texts for Training Dataset Creation
- Laura Ilves (2024) Development of cardiovascular disease prediction models on Estonian national electronic health records
- Ami Sild (2024) Analysis of Psoriasis Comorbidities Using Cox Regression
- Kati Koido (2024) Occurrence of Adult Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder in Estonia in 2013–2019 Based on Health Information Data
- Grete Mägi (2024) The Consumption of Interacting Drugs with Bleeding Risk in Estonia from 2012 to 2019 and Related Bleeding Incidents
- Egert Vinogradov (2024) Quality Control of Laboratory Analysis Cleaning Workflow
- Annika Talvet (2024) Discretization and Analysis of Laboratory Tests
- Kristiina Miller (2024) Comparison of Data from the Health Information System and the Health Insurance Fund in the Period of 2012-2019 by Patients, Diagnoses, Types of Treatment and Health Service Providers
- Kairi Käiro (2024) Identification of Drug Side Effects Based on Prescription Data
- Sander Tamm (2023) Algorithmic Definition of Patient Trajectory Similarity
- Johannes Holm (2023) AdherenceFromOMOP: A Software Package for Secondary Adherence Measurement on OMOP Standardized Health Data
- Õie Renata Siimon (2023) Patient Treatment Trajectories Using Vector Embeddings
- Musa Salamov (2023) Process mining on Estonian healthcare data
- Markus Haug (2022) Patient Treatment Trajectory Modeling With Markov Chains
- Harry-Anton Talvik (2022) Workflow for Transforming Health Records to OMOP Common Data Model
- Hendrik Šuvalov (2022) Framework for Neural Network Based Fact Extraction Workflows
- Kerli Mooses (2022) Early Detection of Cervical Cancer and Monitoring in Estonia 2012-2019
- Sille Habakukk (2022) Creating Prediction Models Based on Estonian COVID-19 Data
- Alari Kannus (2022) Prostate Cancer Treatment Trajectories in Estonia Based on Electronic Health Records, 2012-2019
- Ulvi Kuusik (2022) Medication Adherence Among Hypertensive Patients Taking Metoprolol Using Prescriptions Data from Estonian Medical Prescription Center
- Raili Jäe (2021) Automation of Analysis of the Implementation of Additional Risk Minimization Measures for Medicinal Products
- Janne Sokk (2021) Testing Genetic Data Information System in Cypress Framework
- Ida Maria Orula (2021) The Process of Creating a Scientific Knowledge Base for Pharmacogenetic Testing
- Meelis Perli (2021) Representation Learning on Free Text Medical Data
- Irina Häelm (2021) Analysis of Refractive Errors and the Prevalence of Ophthalmological Diseases Associated With Them on the Basis of Estonian Health Insurance Fund Medical Data
- Taavi Luik (2021) Designing a Pharmacogenetic Test as a Medical Software Device
- Nesma Talaat Abbas Mahmoud (2020) Fact Extraction from Medical Text using Neural Networks
- Silvia Pihu (2020) Prediction of Large-for-Gestational-Age and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus with Machine Learning Methods and Analysis of Risk Factors
- Egert Georg Teesaar (2020) Clustering Methods for Interpreting Medical Data
- Sirli Tamm (2019) Health status and health behaviour of Estonian pre-school children from birth to 7 years of age on the basis of the 2010 birth cohort based on Estonian health insurance claims
- Jane Jäger (2019) Information Systems in Support of Clinical Trial Monitoring
- Anne Ott (2019) Descriptive analysis of Estonian blood tests
- Hedi Liivlaid (2018) Comparing Specialist Care Morbidity Statistics of Two Datasets: National Institute for Health Development and Estonian Health Insurance Fund
- Robert Roosalu (2017) Context embeddings for natural language clustering
Tallinn University
Master theses:
- Bret Rand (2025) Ensuring the Quality of the Information Technology Development Process Through DevOps Improvement Using the Example of the Health Information System of the Health and Welfare Information Systems Centre
- Mohammed Mahmood Ibrahim Ockba (2025) The Design and Implementation of a Speech Therapy Game
- Natali Evagorou (2024) Design Guidelines and Recommendations for Smartphone-Based mHealth Applications in Eldercare: Supporting Informal Caregivers in Cyprus
- Andreas Harnindito (2024) Trust in Telemedicine Services Mobile Application: A Case Study in Indonesia Post-pandemic Investigating Factors Affecting Users’ Trust Perception
- Monaliisa Murs (2024) Supporting Paediatric Patients’ Self-Tracking with Interaction Design
- Evelin Lättemaa (2024) Digital Transformation and Knowledge Transfer in the Dental Field in Estonia and Finland
- Pjotr Surkov (2024) Enriching Self-Management Health Apps with Adaptive Social Gamification
- Talitha Jamila Vaughan (2024) Evaluating the User Experience of Text-Based Prompting and AI Conversational LLMs for Low-Literacy, Low-Articulation Users
- Yoshio Yamazaki (2024) Using VR Rock Climbing Games for Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders
- Heleene Kaljurand (2023) Designing for Better Care: A Case Study of Estonian Patient Portal Using Empathetic Design for Presenting Medical Data
- Ekaterina tarasova (2023) Exploring the Relationship Between Social Media Use Patterns and Anxiety: A Diary Study
- Madis Kaasik (2020) Digitaalse privaatsuse tajumine Eestis COVID-19 pandeemia ja GDPR-i kontekstis
- Mert Nesvat (2020) Heart Rate Variability Assessment from iPhone Using Photoplethysmography (PPG): Boredom Experience Sampling Study
- Rajiv Dhanaraj (2019) Using Vibro-Tactile Feedback on an Example of Posture Correcting Wearable Device
- Toshifumi Sasaki (2019) Neuruto: A Neuroadaptive Virtual Reality Serious Game for Health
Tartu Applied Health Sciences University
Master theses:
- Anna-Maria Soobik (2026) Body composition of young Estonian women who have used combined hormonal contraceptives – a quantitative study
- Jane Ermel (2026) Prevalence of compassion fatigue among nurses at Psychiatry Clinic of Tartu University Hospital: Quantitative study
- Sander Saarits (2025) ChatGPT potential, risks, strengths and weaknesses in basic nursing education: a systematic literature review
- Karin Vichmann (2025) The usage of information technology equipment by healthcare workers, experience and preparedness to implement new solutions in the SA TÜK adult intensive care departments.
- Yohanna Musa LinkBirma (2024) Incident learning and reporting systems in NSIA-LUTH and NHAradiotherapy centers Nigeria
- Stella Kibena (2022) Breast cancer patients´quality of care, support needs and satisfaction with their radiotherapy treatment in Tartu University Hospital
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