This course is part of the AI in Healthcare Specialization

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AI in Healthcare SpecializationStanford University

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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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AI in Healthcare Specialization

Beginner Level

Approx. 12 hours to complete

English

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

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Matthew Lungren

Associate Professor

Department of Radiology

15,252 Learners

2 Courses

Serena Yeung

Assistant Professor

Biomedical Data Science

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2 Courses

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Stanford University

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week1

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?3mHistory of AI in Medicine6mCourse Overview4mWhy Healthcare Needs Machine Learning2mMachine Learning Magic8mMachine Learning, Biostatistics, Programming4mCan Machine Learning Solve Everything?5m

6 readings

Getting Started: Creators of This Course5mVideo Image CreditVideo Image CreditStudy Guide Module 15mCitations and Additional Readings10mVideo Image Credit

3 practice exercises

Reflection Exercise15mReflection Exercise10mKnowledge Check30m

Week2

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 111mMachine Learning Terms, Definitions, and Jargon Part 210mHow Machines Learn Part 18mHow Machines Learn Part 25mSupervised Machine Learning Approaches: Regression and the "No Free Lunch" Theorem3mOther Traditional Supervised Machine Learning Approaches3mSupport Vector Machine (SVM)3mUnsupervised Machine Learning4m

2 readings

Study Guide Module 25mCitations and Additional Readings5m

3 practice exercises

Reflection Exercise10mReflection Exercise10mKnowledge Check30m

Week3

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 Networks8mDeep Learning and Neural Networks6mCross Entropy Loss3mGradient Descent6mRepresenting Unstructured Image and Text Data5mConvolutional Neural Networks4mNatural Language Processing and Recurrent Neural Networks7mThe Transformer Architecture for Sequences4mCommonly Used and Advanced Neural Network Architectures6mAdvanced Computer Vision Tasks and Wrap-Up10m

3 readings

Video Image CreditStudy Guide Module 35mCitations and Additional Readings5m

3 practice exercises

Reflection Exercise10mReflection Exercise10mKnowledge Check30m

Week4

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 Evaluation2mOverfitting and Underfitting8mStrategies to Address Overfitting, Underfitting and Introduction to Regularization 5mStatistical Approaches to Model Evaluation5mReceiver Operator and Precision Recall Curves as Evaluation Metrics11m

2 readings

Study Guide Module 45mCitations and Additional Readings5m

3 practice exercises

Reflection Exercise 110mReflection Exercise 210mKnowledge Check30m

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TOP REVIEWS FROM FUNDAMENTALS OF MACHINE LEARNING FOR HEALTHCARE

by HJOct 4, 2021

it is a really good course for learning ML but some of the videos are a bit hard to fully understand

by CCFeb 20, 2023

Very useful and practical content for healthcare professionals wanting to learn about machine learning.

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.

by CDMar 4, 2021

Excellent introductory course to understand Machine Learning in the context of Healthcare delivery

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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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Is this activity accredited for Continuing Medical Education (CME)?
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.
Disclosures
The Stanford University School of Medicine adheres to ACCME Criteria, Standards and Policies regarding industry support of continuing medical education. There are no relevant financial relationships with ACCME-defined commercial interests for anyone who was in control of the content of this activity.

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