Pre-requisites ME 250.771 Introduction to Precision Medicine Data Analytics and ME 250.770 Clinical Data Analysis with Python
Students will be oriented to the various applications of natural language processing (NLP) in biomedicine, healthcare, and public health. The course will emphasize the importance of clearly defining what problem needs to be solved or what questions one seeks to get answered via the use of NLP.
Topics:
- approaches to data mining of free text from the biomedical literature, clinical narratives, and other novel data sources
- NLP and machine learning algorithms
- applications of these tools in epidemiologic surveillance, clinical decision support, and other relevant use cases
All students must seek the instructor’s permission.