6.7930[6.871]/HST.956: Machine Learning for Healthcare

Graduate level; Units 4-0-8 (counts as an AUS2, AAGS, and II subject; also a EECS AI TQE)
Instructors: Peter Szolovits, David Sontag
Teaching Assistants: Ilker Demirel, Sophie Guo
Lectures: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:30-4:00pm Eastern Time, 4-270
Recitations (required): Friday, 3:00-4:00pm, 4-270
Prerequisites: 6.3900[6.036] or 6.7900[6.867] or 9.520/6.7910[6.860] or 6.8611/6.8610[6.806/6.864] or 6.4102/6.4100[6.438/6.034] or equivalent machine learning class. (Subscripted bracketed numbers are the class numbers before the recent mass renumbering of all EECS classes.)

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Course description

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. Topics include causality, interpretability, algorithmic fairness, time-series analysis, graphical models, deep learning, transfer learning, genomics, and computational biology. Guest lectures by clinicians from the Boston area and course projects with real clinical data emphasize subtleties of working with clinical data and translating machine learning into clinical practice.


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Prior years of this course