6.S897/HST.956 Machine Learning for Healthcare (Spring 2019, MIT OCW). Instructors: Prof. David Sontag and Prof. Peter Szolovits. This course introduces students to machine learning in healthcare, including the nature of clinical data and the use of machine learning for risk stratification, disease progression modeling, precision medicine, diagnosis, subtype discovery, and improving clinical workflows.
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Lecture 01 - What Makes Healthcare Unique?
Instructor: Prof. David Sontag. Prof. Sontag gives an overview of the problem of healthcare in the US. He gives an overview of the history of artificial intelligence in healthcare, reasons why to apply machine learning to healthcare today, and some examples of applied machine learning.