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Health Sciences: Software

Selected software relevant for Health Science

  • Endnote can assist you in correctly formatting your references in your assignments or reviews and creates a well-organized reference list. (EndNote guide in Danish)
  • Covidence is a web-based program and can assist you in screening, quality assessment and data extraction of references, when writing systematic or other reviews. (Covidence guide in Danish)
  • NVivo can assist you with your qualitative data analysis. (NVivo guide in Danish)
     
  • Stata is a statistics software that can be used for scientific analysis of quantitative data - data management, basic uni- and bivariate analyses and linear regression, and illustrating the results of interaction models. (Contact SDU IT or download from http://sw.sdu.dk/)
  • SurveyXact can be used to create surveys/questionnaires for your assignments or projects at SDU.

Download the programs mentioned and see SDU IT's full list of software for you as a Health Science student. 
PhD researchers and other employees at SDU must download the programs via Software Center.
If you have problems downloading the software, please contact SDU IT by email servicedesk@sdu.dk.


Transcriber can make a transcription of a voice or video recording, using the Whisper large language model from OpenAI. On top of this the utility uses WhisperX to add speaker diarization. The app can process .mp3, .mp4, .m4a, .wav, .mpeg and.mpg` files.

SDU's eScience Centre supports UCloud  which hosts several apps including Transcriber, FreeSurfer and XNAT. If you have any issues: contact their Service desk https://escience.sdu.dk/index.php/sdu-front-office

Open tools

Voyant Tools can be used for qualitative data analysis.

AI (Artificial Intelligence)

AI is impacting research, information and literature searches both now and in the future. ChatGPT and CoPilot are just some of the well-known AI models, with more being added all the time. SDU employees and students as well as OUH employees has access to Scite AI
Beside these Mimer AI Research Assistant may help you

While AI models and AI tools can be a great help in parts of the review writing process, they don't eliminate the need to search for literature, AI models are only a help, but they are not the solution in review writing, and you should always be critical of the suggestions they make.

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