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. 2020 May 30:2020:191-200.
eCollection 2020.

A Review of Challenges and Opportunities in Machine Learning for Health

Marzyeh Ghassemi  1 , Tristan Naumann  2 , Peter Schulam  3 , Andrew L Beam  4 , Irene Y Chen  5 , Rajesh Ranganath  6
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A Review of Challenges and Opportunities in Machine Learning for Health

Marzyeh Ghassemi et al. AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc. .

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.

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