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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

Applying ML in healthcare and life sciences

In the first chapter, we went over the introductory concepts of ML and how it differs from typical software. We also covered the ML life cycle and the different steps involved in an ML project. Let us now apply this understanding to healthcare and life sciences and look at some examples of how ML is impacting the healthcare and life sciences industry.

The healthcare and life sciences industry can be divided into multiple subsegments that organizations help support. It starts from research that allows for the discovery of new therapeutics and drugs and helps understand the human body by mapping the genetic code. It includes the process of taking drugs into clinical trials and tracking their progress and regulatory reporting through various stages of testing to ascertain whether the drug is safe. It involves manufacturing the drugs at scale for fast global distribution and matching that with targeted sales and commercial campaigns to ensure...