Overview

This week you will learn about machine learning, and you will also be introduced to key methods for analysing clinical text.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the week you will be able to:

  1. Explain what machine learning is and how it relates to artificial intelligence, and argue about threats and opportunities brought to the healthcare sector

  2. Describe and compare supervised to unsupervised learning methods

  3. Discuss key tasks in natural language processing

  4. Describe computational methods used for analysing clinical text

Structure of this week’s materials

  1. Machine Learning: 1 reading and 5 videos

  2. Analysing Clinical Text: 1 reading and 3 videos

  3. Embedding Ethics into Data Sharing: 4 questions for reflection