How to Build a Clinical Diagnostic Model in Python
Diagnosing a patient requires consideration of a wide variety of factors: past medical history and comorbidities, physical exam findings, lab results, imaging, ECG findings, and in some cases, genomic testing. Clinical diagnosis and prognostic assessment currently relies on expert knowledge of the treating physician. Recent developments in machine learning make it possible to build automated clinical diagnostic and risk assessment tools using data from the electronic medical record. This talk …