Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Healthcare

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Machine learning and artificial intelligence hold the potential to transform healthcare and open up a world of incredible promise. But we will never realize the potential of these technologies unless all stakeholders have basic competencies in both healthcare and machine learning concepts and principles. 
This course will introduce the fundamental concepts and principles of machine learning as it applies to medicine and healthcare. We will explore machine learning approaches, medical use cases, metrics unique to healthcare, as well as best practices for designing, building, and evaluating machine learning applications in healthcare.

The course will empower those with non-engineering backgrounds in healthcare, health policy, pharmaceutical development, as well as data science with the knowledge to critically evaluate and use these technologies.

 
Co-author: Geoffrey Angus
 
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Mars Huang
Jin Long
Shannon Crawford
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The Stanford University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  Visit the FAQs below for important information regarding 1) Date of original release and Termination or expiration date; 2) Accreditation and Credit Designation statements; 3) Disclosure of financial relationships for every person in control of activity content.

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Approx. 12 hours to complete

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Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish

What you will learn

Define important relationships between the fields of machine learning, biostatistics, and traditional computer programming.

Learn about advanced neural network architectures for tasks ranging from text classification to object detection and segmentation.

Learn important approaches for leveraging data to train, validate, and test machine learning models.

Understand how dynamic medical practice and discontinuous timelines impact clinical machine learning application development and deployment.

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Course 3 of 5 in the

AI in Healthcare Specialization

Beginner Level

Approx. 12 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish

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Matthew Lungren
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The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is an American private research university located in Stanford, California on an 8,180-acre (3,310 ha) campus near Palo Alto, California, United States.

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Why machine learning in healthcare?

2 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 34 min), 6 readings, 3 quizzes

7 videos

Why machine learning in healthcare?3m

History of AI in Medicine6m

Course Overview4m

Why Healthcare Needs Machine Learning2m

Machine Learning Magic8m

Machine Learning, Biostatistics, Programming4m

Can Machine Learning Solve Everything?5m

6 readings

Getting Started: Creators of This Course5m

Video Image Credit

Study Guide Module 15m

Citations and Additional Readings10m

Video Image Credit

3 practice exercises

Reflection Exercise15m

Reflection Exercise10m

Knowledge Check30m

Week

Week 2

2 hours to complete

Concepts and Principles of machine learning in healthcare part 1

2 hours to complete

8 videos (Total 51 min), 2 readings, 3 quizzes

8 videos

Machine Learning Terms, Definitions, and Jargon Part 111m

Machine Learning Terms, Definitions, and Jargon Part 210m

How Machines Learn Part 18m

How Machines Learn Part 25m

Supervised Machine Learning Approaches: Regression and the "No Free Lunch" Theorem3m

Other Traditional Supervised Machine Learning Approaches3m

Support Vector Machine (SVM)3m

Unsupervised Machine Learning4m

2 readings

Study Guide Module 25m

Citations and Additional Readings5m

3 practice exercises

Reflection Exercise10m

Knowledge Check30m

Week

Week 3

2 hours to complete

Concepts and Principles of machine learning in healthcare part 2

2 hours to complete

10 videos (Total 63 min), 3 readings, 3 quizzes

10 videos

Introduction to Deep Learning and Neural Networks8m

Deep Learning and Neural Networks6m

Cross Entropy Loss3m

Gradient Descent6m

Representing Unstructured Image and Text Data5m

Convolutional Neural Networks4m

Natural Language Processing and Recurrent Neural Networks7m

The Transformer Architecture for Sequences4m

Commonly Used and Advanced Neural Network Architectures6m

Advanced Computer Vision Tasks and Wrap-Up10m

3 readings

Video Image Credit

Study Guide Module 35m

Citations and Additional Readings5m

3 practice exercises

Reflection Exercise10m

Knowledge Check30m

Week

Week 4

2 hours to complete

Evaluation and Metrics for machine learning in healthcare

2 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 35 min), 2 readings, 3 quizzes

5 videos

Introduction to Model Performance Evaluation2m

Overfitting and Underfitting8m

Strategies to Address Overfitting, Underfitting and Introduction to Regularization 5m

Statistical Approaches to Model Evaluation5m

Receiver Operator and Precision Recall Curves as Evaluation Metrics11m

2 readings

Study Guide Module 45m

Citations and Additional Readings5m

3 practice exercises

Reflection Exercise 110m

Reflection Exercise 210m

Knowledge Check30m

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TOP REVIEWS FROM FUNDAMENTALS OF MACHINE LEARNING FOR HEALTHCARE

by MNJan 2, 2021

Good course but the language needs to be simpler. Sometimes simple facts are complicated with the use of high pedigree words that don't really add much to conveying the overall message.

by AJSep 8, 2020

Amazing course teaching the innumerous opportunities in the healthcare sector and the application of AI in the same. Beautifully drafted course with intriguing tutorials and exercises.

by LAApr 1, 2021

This was a great course, the presenters really gave a clear view about the differences which could happen when working with health related data set. Very well done,

by LSSep 26, 2020

Interesting and well crafted, it is mostly at an introductory level, but accurate and with many details regarding how to apply ML to healthcare. Worth to follow.

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About the AI in Healthcare Specialization

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed industries around the world, and has the potential to radically alter the field of healthcare. Imagine being able to analyze data on patient visits to the clinic, medications prescribed, lab tests, and procedures performed, as well as data outside the health system -- such as social media, purchases made using credit cards, census records, Internet search activity logs that contain valuable health information, and you’ll get a sense of how AI could transform patient care and diagnoses.

In this specialization, we'll discuss the current and future applications of AI in healthcare with the goal of learning to bring AI technologies into the clinic safely and ethically. This specialization is designed for both healthcare providers and computer science professionals, offering insights to facilitate collaboration between the disciplines. CME Accreditation The Stanford University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. View the full CME accreditation information on the individual course FAQ page.

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Dates and Duration
Original Release Date: 08/10/2020
Expiration Date: 08/10/2023
Estimated Time to Complete: 11 hours
CME Credits Offered: 11.00
Accreditation
The Stanford University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Stanford University School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 11.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Healthcare