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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

Introducing AWS AI/ML services for healthcare and life sciences

The AWS AI/ML stack consists of purpose-built services that can help organizations develop ML applications for a variety of use cases. Some of these services are unique to healthcare and life sciences and are designed to solve specific industry problems. Others are not designed specifically for healthcare and life sciences but are a great building block for ML applications in healthcare and life sciences. Let us look at some of these services in more detail.

Introducing Amazon Comprehend Medical

Amazon Comprehend Medical is the first healthcare-specific ML service from AWS. It falls in the category of Natural Language Processing (NLP), a branch of ML that allows models to understand the nuances of human language. Amazon Comprehend Medical extends this concept to the healthcare domain, by helping understand medically relevant information from unstructured clinical text. The service performs Named Entity Extraction...