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Healthcare Analytics Made Simple

By : Vikas (Vik) Kumar, Shameer Khader
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Healthcare Analytics Made Simple

By: Vikas (Vik) Kumar, Shameer Khader

Overview of this book

In recent years, machine learning technologies and analytics have been widely utilized across the healthcare sector. Healthcare Analytics Made Simple bridges the gap between practising doctors and data scientists. It equips the data scientists’ work with healthcare data and allows them to gain better insight from this data in order to improve healthcare outcomes. This book is a complete overview of machine learning for healthcare analytics, briefly describing the current healthcare landscape, machine learning algorithms, and Python and SQL programming languages. The step-by-step instructions teach you how to obtain real healthcare data and perform descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics using popular Python packages such as pandas and scikit-learn. The latest research results in disease detection and healthcare image analysis are reviewed. By the end of this book, you will understand how to use Python for healthcare data analysis, how to import, collect, clean, and refine data from electronic health record (EHR) surveys, and how to make predictive models with this data through real-world algorithms and code examples.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Building the models

In this section, we'll build three types of classifiers and assess their performance: a logistic regression classifier, a random forest, and a neural network.

Logistic regression

We discussed the intuition behind and basics of logistic regression models in Chapter 3, Machine Learning Foundations. To build a model on our training set, we use the following code:

from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression

clfs = [LogisticRegression()]

for clf in clfs:
clf.fit(X_train, y_train.ravel())
print(type(clf))
print('Training accuracy: ' + str(clf.score(X_train, y_train)))
print('Validation accuracy: ' + str(clf.score(X_test, y_test)))

coefs = {
'column...