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Applied Machine Learning for Healthcare and Life Sciences Using AWS

By : Ujjwal Ratan
Book Image

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

Technical requirements

The following are the technical requirements that you need to complete before building the example implementation at the end of this chapter:

  1. Complete the steps to set up the prerequisites for Amazon SageMaker as described here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/gs-set-up.html.
  2. Create a SageMaker notebook instance by following the steps in the following guide: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/howitworks-create-ws.html.

Note

At the step where you need to choose the notebook instance type, please select ml.p2.xlarge.

  1. Create an S3 bucket, as described in Chapter 4, in the Building a smart medical transcription application on AWS section, under Create an S3 bucket. If you already have an S3 bucket, you can use that instead of creating a new bucket.
  2. Open the Jupyter notebook interface of the Sagemaker notebook instance by clicking on Open Jupyter link on the Notebook Instances screen.
  3. On the top right...