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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 Amazon SageMaker Studio

Amazon SageMaker Studio is an IDE for ML that is completely web-based and fully managed by AWS resources in the background. It provides an intuitive interface to access ML tools to build, train, deploy, monitor, and debug your ML models. It also provides studio notebooks, which have a JupyterLab interface preinstalled with popular data science libraries that allow you to begin experimenting immediately upon getting access to the studio notebooks interface. These notebooks can be scaled up or down for CPUs or GPUs depending on the workloads you want to run on them and also provides terminal access for you to install and manage third-party libraries for local runs of your experiments. Once you are done experimenting locally, you can call multiple SageMaker jobs to scale out your experiments to larger datasets and workloads that can be horizontally scaled to multiple instances instead of a single notebook environment. For example, SageMaker Processing...