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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

Understanding challenges with implementing ML in healthcare and life sciences

We have seen multiple examples of the use of ML in healthcare and life sciences. These include use cases for providers, payers, genomics, drug discovery, and many more. While we have shown how ML can solve some of the biggest challenges that the healthcare industry is facing, implementing it at scale for healthcare and life sciences workloads has some inherent challenges. Let us now review some of those challenges in more detail.

Healthcare and life sciences regulations

Healthcare and life sciences is a highly regulated industry. There are laws that protect a patient’s health information and ensure the security and privacy of healthcare systems. There are some laws that are specific to countries that the patients reside in, and any entity that interacts with data for those patients needs to comply with those rules. Let’s look at some examples of such regulations:

  • Health Insurance...