Trends and Focus of Machine Learning Applications for Health Research.

Journal: JAMA network open
Published Date:

Abstract

IMPORTANCE: The use of machine learning applications related to health is rapidly increasing and may have the potential to profoundly affect the field of health care.

Authors

  • Brett Beaulieu-Jones
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Samuel G Finlayson
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
  • Corey Chivers
    Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
  • Irene Chen
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
  • Matthew McDermott
    MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Jaz Kandola
    Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
  • Adrian V Dalca
    Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA; Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, HMS, Charlestown, MA, USA; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. Electronic address: adalca@csail.mit.edu.
  • Andrew Beam
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America.
  • Madalina Fiterau
  • Tristan Naumann
    Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA.