Checklist for the start of your studies
Before the first day of your education, you need to take some important steps.
1.Reply to your offer
If you have been admitted to a course or programme, or been placed on a waiting list, you must reply to your first admissions notification to keep your place. If you don't wish to keep your place, you should decline your offer. In doing so, you free up your place to someone who is on the waiting list. You reply to your offer by logging in to your account at Universityadmissions.se by 20 july 2026.
2.Activate your user account and MFA
As a new student, you need to activate your user account (your UMU-id) approximately two weeks prior to the start of the semester.
With your user account you can:
- register for courses
- access the internet in computer labs and the university's wireless network
- submit assignments and verify your study results
- access your student e-mail
If you are a new student, you will automatically receive a user account when you are admitted, but you will need to activate it for it to function properly. You will not be able to activate it until approximately two weeks prior to the start of the semester.
Exchange student or tuition fee paying student
If you are an exchange student or tuition fee paying student, you will receive an email with instructions on how to activate your account.
Install MFA for a more secure login
To increase security and reduce the risk of unauthorised access to your information or account, students must enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) to log in to various systems, such as Canvas and the Student Web.
I want to activate my user account and install MFA
Help! It´s not working
If you are having problems activating your account or logging in, please contact our Servicedesk. You will find answers to common questions, and can submit enquiries.
3.Course registration
Once you have accepted your place, you must register for the course. For this course, you must register yourself in LADOK before the course starts.
If you know in advance that you will not be able to register, you must notify us in good time. If you suffer from an acute illness or other unforeseen event that prevents you from registering, you must contact us as soon as possible (a medical certificate is required).
In order to register for the course, you must first activate your Umu-id.
4.Course start
2026-11-06
09.15
The schedule is preliminary until four weeks before the course starts
Please note that the course call is mandatory, it is very important to notify the course coordinator if you cannot attend the call.
Obout the course:
This course is about medical imaging and how it can be applied to study the human body in health and disease. The course covers various methods that are common in both clinical practice and in medical research to study organ function and detect diseases.
The course introduces general image properties and common reconstruction and analysis techniques. The course then covers the four major imaging modalities: X-ray/computed tomography, nuclear medicine with an emphasis on positron emission tomography (PET), ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). For each imaging modality, an overview of the instrumentation and relevant physics theory is provided.
A significant part of the course is devoted to algorithms used in the analysis of medical images. Computer laboratories for medical image analysis provide relevant practical experience of methods to facilitate the interpretation of collected data. The course is given in English.
The course consists of two parts: Module 1, theoretical work, 5 credits Module 2, laboratory work, 2.5 credits The course's laboratory work is based on real challenges in medical image processing, taken from ongoing research projects at the department. The emphasis of the laboratory work is on image analysis.
All correspondence with the students is via Canvas. Once you have registered for the course, you will have access to the course information on Canvas.
It is important that you take part in this information, and receive updates, e.g. regarding changes in the schedule, as quickly as possible. Therefore, make sure that a correct email address is linked to your user, and if you do not check that address regularly, arrange for forwarding to another email address.
The course you are going to take is given by the Department of Diagnostics and Intervention.
https://www.umu.se/institutionen-for-diagnostik-och-intervention/
Course coordinator: Anders Wåhlin (anders.wahlin@umu.se)
Contact Anders Wåhlin if you have any questions regarding the course.
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