#39: Rolling in the Deep Patient

We take a deep dive into the poster child for black-box machine learning methods, namely Deep Patient: an unsupervised learning method that uses denoising auto-encoders as the means for extracting salient features in electronic health records, which in turn can then be used to predict health outcomes. We do our best to explain what on earth the previous sentence meant.

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