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Opportunities in Machine Learning for Healthcare

92 Citations2018
M. Ghassemi, Tristan Naumann, Peter F. Schulam
ArXiv

This article serves as a primer to illuminate challenges of learning in a clinical setting and highlights opportunities for members of the machine learning community to contribute to healthcare.

Abstract

Modern electronic health records (EHRs) provide data to answer clinically meaningful questions. The growing data in EHRs makes healthcare ripe for the use of machine learning. However, learning in a clinical setting presents unique challenges that complicate the use of common machine learning methodologies. For example, diseases in EHRs are poorly labeled, conditions can encompass multiple underlying endotypes, and healthy individuals are underrepresented. This article serves as a primer to illuminate these challenges and highlights opportunities for members of the machine learning community to contribute to healthcare.