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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

Building an ML model to predict Medicare claim amounts

Medicare is a benefit that is provided for people in the US who are aged over 65 years. In general, it is designed to cover healthcare costs for seniors including procedures, visits, and tests. The cost of Medicare is covered by the federal government in the US. Just like with any private insurance, they need to analyze the data to find out ways to estimate payment costs and make sure they are setting aside the right budget when compared to the premiums and deductible amounts. This is important as the cost of healthcare services changes over time. ML can learn from past claim amounts and predict claim amounts for new subscribers of the plan. This can help the insurance provider to plan for future expenses and identify areas for optimization. We will now build this model using Amazon SageMaker. The goal of this exercise is to create an end-to-end flow for feature engineering using SageMaker Data Wrangler and a model in the SageMaker...