Applications of Machine Learning on Natural Language Processing and Biomedical Data

Abstract: Machine learning is ubiquitous in today’s society, with promising applicationsin the field of natural language processing (NLP), so that computers can handlehuman language better, and within the medical community, with the promiseof better treatments. Machine learning can be seen as a subfield of artificialintelligence (AI), where AI is used to describe a machine that mimics cognitivefunctions that humans associate with other human minds, such as learning orproblem solving.In this thesis we explore how machine learning can be used to improve classification of picture, by using associated text. We then shift our focus to biomedical data, specifically heart transplantation patients. We show how the data can be represented as a graph database using the resource description framework (RDF).After that we use the data with logistic regression and the Spark framework, toperform feature search to predict the survival probability of the patients. In thetwo last articles we use artificial neural networks (ANN) first to predict patientsurvival, and compare it with a logistic regression approach, and last to predict the outcome of patients awaiting heart transplantation.We plan to do simulation of different allocation policies, for donor hearts, usingthese kind of ANNs, to be able to asses their impact on predicted earned survivaltime.