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Applied Machine Learning for Healthcare and Life Sciences Using AWS

By : Ujjwal Ratan
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Applied Machine Learning for Healthcare and Life Sciences Using AWS

By: Ujjwal Ratan

Overview of this book

While machine learning is not new, it's only now that we are beginning to uncover its true potential in the healthcare and life sciences industry. The availability of real-world datasets and access to better compute resources have helped researchers invent applications that utilize known AI techniques in every segment of this industry, such as providers, payers, drug discovery, and genomics. This book starts by summarizing the introductory concepts of machine learning and AWS machine learning services. You’ll then go through chapters dedicated to each segment of the healthcare and life sciences industry. Each of these chapters has three key purposes -- First, to introduce each segment of the industry, its challenges, and the applications of machine learning relevant to that segment. Second, to help you get to grips with the features of the services available in the AWS machine learning stack like Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Comprehend Medical. Third, to enable you to apply your new skills to create an ML-driven solution to solve problems particular to that segment. The concluding chapters outline future industry trends and applications. By the end of this book, you’ll be aware of key challenges faced in applying AI to healthcare and life sciences industry and learn how to address those challenges with confidence.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Machine Learning on AWS
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2
Chapter 1: Introducing Machine Learning and the AWS Machine Learning Stack
4
Part 2: Machine Learning Applications in the Healthcare Industry
9
Part 3: Machine Learning Applications in the Life Sciences Industry
14
Part 4: Challenges and the Future of AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences

Building an adverse event clustering model pipeline on SageMaker

Now let us build a pipeline to train an adverse event clustering model. The purpose of this pipeline is to cluster adverse events detected in drug reviews using an unsupervised clustering model. This can help investigators group drugs with certain reported clinical conditions together and facilitates investigations related to adverse events. We will read some raw drug review data and extract top clinical conditions from that data. Let us now look at the details of the workflow. Here is a diagram that explains the steps of the solution:

Figure 9.1 – The pipeline workflow

As shown in the preceding diagram, we use Amazon Comprehend Medical to extract clinical conditions from the raw drug reviews. These clinical conditions are reported by the end users as adverse events while taking the drug. We take the top five clinical conditions as relevant topics on which we would like to cluster. Clustering...