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 18 - Disease Progression Modeling and Subtyping, Part 1
Instructor: Prof. David Sontag. Prof. Sontag discusses aspects of disease progression modeling, including staging, subtyping, and multi-task and unsupervised learning. The goals are to determine the patient's place in the disease trajectory and how treatment may affect progression.