Deep Learning for Health Care Applications: Challenges and Solutions

It is widely believed that deep learning and artificial intelligence techniques will fundamentally change health care industries. Even though recent development in deep learning has achieved successes in many applications, such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition and so on, health care applications pose many significantly different challenges to existing deep learning models. Examples include but not are limited to interpretations for prediction, heterogeneity in data, missing value, multi-rate multiresolution data, big and small data, and privacy issues.

In this tutorial, we will discuss a series of problems in health care that can benefit from deep learning models, the challenges as well as recent advances in addressing those. We will also include data sets and demos of working systems.