How to Diagnose Cancer with Amazon Machine Learning - Cloud Academy Blog

Is it possible to distinguish one class of samples from another, based on some set of measurements? Research investigating this and related medical questions have spurred innovation in medicine and the application of statistical methods and machine learning for decades. In this post, we'll address how to answer these questions using highly available, scalable, and easy-to-use cloud computing services that are included in Amazon Web Services (AWS). We'll start by guiding you through using Amazon Machine Learning to classify medical tumor samples as benign or malignant. Then, we'll explore other machine learning services and how they could be used to investigate medical questions.