Machine Learning and AI for Healthcare: Big Data for Improved Health Outcomes

© Arjun Panesar 2021

A. PanesarMachine Learning and AI for Healthcare https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6537-6_7

7. Evaluating Machine Learning Models

Arjun Panesar¹  

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Coventry, UK

 

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

—Stephen Hawking

As a field, machine learning is still in its infancy. Advanced machine learning has only been explored over the last 25 years, which has fueled data science as a profession. Thus, the data science industry is still in a phase of wonderment at the endless potential of AI and machine learning. With this come both excitement and confusion—and an industry that is gathering knowledge, experience, and first-time problems.

Typically, the most laborious tasks within a machine learning project are identifying the ...