Introducing AWS AI/ML services for healthcare and life sciences

The AWS AI/ML stack consists of purpose-built services that can help organizations develop ML applications for a variety of use cases. Some of these services are unique to healthcare and life sciences and are designed to solve specific industry problems. Others are not designed specifically for healthcare and life sciences but are a great building block for ML applications in healthcare and life sciences. Let us look at some of these services in more detail.

Introducing Amazon Comprehend Medical

Amazon Comprehend Medical is the first healthcare-specific ML service from AWS. It falls in the category of Natural Language Processing (NLP), a branch of ML that allows models to understand the nuances of human language. Amazon Comprehend Medical extends this concept to the healthcare domain, by helping understand medically relevant information from unstructured clinical text. The service performs Named Entity Extraction...