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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)

Cancer

In Chapter 2, Healthcare Foundations, we cited several reasons why fighting cancer via ML is an important endeavor, its significant global morbidity, mortality, and emotional consequences notwithstanding. In this section, let's take a closer look at some important concepts and background about cancer, potential machine learning applications for fighting cancer, important features for cancer risk and survivability modeling, and some of the work that has already been done in the area of breast cancer as an example.

What is cancer?

Cancer can be described as the growth and proliferation of abnormal cells. These cells differ from normal cells in their aggressive reproductive capabilities and their ability to starve...