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How to develop machine learning models for healthcare

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Rapid progress in machine learning is enabling opportunities for improved clinical decision support. Importantly, however, developing, validating and implementing machine learning models for healthcare entail some particular considerations to increase the chances of eventually improving patient care.

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Fig. 1: Examples of different phases of the translational process of developing, validating and implementing ML models for healthcare.
Fig. 2: Dataset naming convention in clinical and ML studies.

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Chen, PH.C., Liu, Y. & Peng, L. How to develop machine learning models for healthcare. Nat. Mater. 18, 410–414 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0345-0

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