MSC1118H: Natural Language Processing for Medicine

This is a 6-week modular course (0.25 FCE) designed to provide an understanding of fundamentals of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for wide applications in medicine. Natural Language and text is among the oldest form of data, available in different fields including medicine. With the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), NLP is in an established stage, applicable to text filtration, classification, clustering, and context generation. In medicine, NLP can be applied to electronic patient records for prediction of patient outcomes, augmenting hospital triage system, and early diagnosis of disease. Hence, learning NLP fundamentals is becoming a necessity for healthcare professionals and researchers.

0.25
Modular
St. George
In Class