LSHTM short course on AI in Health: Introduction to Key Concepts and Applications

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) organizes the short course: “AI in Health, Introduction to Key Concepts and Applications”,to introduce key concepts and applications of AI in health. Specifically, it will equip students with knowledge and skills to critically appraise and plan AI-related health research.

Start date: 17th of July (2 days)

Learning type: face-to-face. 

Session content:

Sessions will be split into the following themes:

• Overview of AI/ML in healthcare (lecture)
• Traditional ML methods with a focus on supervised (regression/classification) and unsupervised (clustering, and dimensionality reduction) learning algorithms (lecture and computer practical)
• Modern ML methods with a focus on artificial neural networks, computer vision, and large language models (lecture and computer practical)
• Evaluation of AI/ML in health solutions considering model validation, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, bias, and monitoring (lecture)
• Ethical, regulatory, and trust issues surrounding the use of AI/ML in health (lecture)
• Critical appraisal of AI/ML-related health research (lecture and practicals applying learning so far to appraise published literature).