An increasing volume of data is becoming available in biomedicine and healthcare, from genomic data, to electronic patient records and data collected by wearable devices. Recent advances in data science are transforming the life sciences, leading to precision medicine and stratified healthcare.
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Data Science in Stratified Healthcare and Precision Medicine
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This week you will be introduced to Sequence Processing and Medical Image Analysis. Explore the course materials to find out about recent advances in these areas and how they contribute to Precision Medicine!
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This week you will learn about Probabilistic and Network Modelling, and how they are applied to biomedicine. You will also be introduced to Machine Learning and explore the opportunities it brings to the medical field.
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This week you will discover how clinical notes and other free-form text can be analysed with the use of Natural Language Processing techniques. You will also find out how Process Modelling can help us understand, stratify and improve healthcare processes.
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In this final week of the course you will learn how the Graph Data model allows for effective linkage of different data in the life sciences. You will also explore societal, legal and ethical implications of precision medicine and stratified healthcare.
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Reviewed on Oct 31, 2019
An excellent introduction to Data Science in healthcare! Overall, this course was very knowledgeable, interactive, challenging and fun!Thank you Coursera!
Reviewed on Dec 14, 2020
It was easy to follow, tasks were interesting yet understandable and pace was okay. I am now interested in continuing my development in this area.
Reviewed on Jun 25, 2018
The course fulfills all my expectations, I'm looking forward to enrolling in a further version of it.
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