This course introduces you to a framework for successful and ethical medical data mining. We will explore the variety of clinical data collected during the delivery of healthcare. You will learn to construct analysis-ready datasets and apply computational procedures to answer clinical questions. We will also explore issues of fairness and bias that may arise when we leverage healthcare data to make decisions about patient care.
Introduction to Clinical Data
Introduction to Clinical Data
This course is part of AI in Healthcare Specialization
Instructors: Nigam Shah
Sponsored by University of Lausanne
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How to apply a framework for medical data mining
Ethical use of data in healthcare decisions
How to make use of data that may be inaccurate in systematic ways
What makes a good research question and how to construct a data mining workflow answer it
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