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Machine Learning for Healthcare Analytics Projects

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Machine Learning for Healthcare Analytics Projects

Overview of this book

Machine Learning (ML) has changed the way organizations and individuals use data to improve the efficiency of a system. ML algorithms allow strategists to deal with a variety of structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data. Machine Learning for Healthcare Analytics Projects is packed with new approaches and methodologies for creating powerful solutions for healthcare analytics. This book will teach you how to implement key machine learning algorithms and walk you through their use cases by employing a range of libraries from the Python ecosystem. You will build five end-to-end projects to evaluate the efficiency of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications for carrying out simple-to-complex healthcare analytics tasks. With each project, you will gain new insights, which will then help you handle healthcare data efficiently. As you make your way through the book, you will use ML to detect cancer in a set of patients using support vector machines (SVMs) and k-Nearest neighbors (KNN) models. In the final chapters, you will create a deep neural network in Keras to predict the onset of diabetes in a huge dataset of patients. You will also learn how to predict heart diseases using neural networks. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to address long-standing challenges, provide specialized solutions for how to deal with them, and carry out a range of cognitive tasks in the healthcare domain.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

A comparison of categorical and binary problems

We will compare and contrast our categorical classification problem and the binary classification problem just covered. To do this, first we have to create a new model, since we've changed our data. We will define a binary model, then we will define an input layer, a hidden layer and an output layer, compile the model, and finally print the model:

As we see in the screenshot, our third layer has only one output value, so it's going to be 0 and 1, instead of a one-hot encoded vector for a categorical classification. So, our binary model is ready, and now we're in the training phase—let's fit the binary model to our binary data that we curated:

As we can see in the preceding screenshot, we're getting better accuracy than we were on our categorical classification problem. Binary classification is like...