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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

Surveying the future of AI in healthcare

Researchers are continuously pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved in healthcare and life sciences organizations with the help of AI. Some of these areas are new and experimental, while others have shown promise and are in various stages of prototyping. The following sections detail some of the new and upcoming trends in the future of AI in healthcare and life sciences.

Reinforcement learning

Reinforcement learning is a technique in ML that involves an AI algorithm learning the right sequence of decisions for a problem based on trial and error. An agent evaluates each trial made by the algorithm based on certain rules. The correct decisions made by the algorithm are awarded by the agent, while the incorrect ones are penalized. The overall goal of the algorithm is to maximize the reward. The point to note here is that, unlike supervised learning algorithms where the initial set of correct and incorrect outputs are fed into the...