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intermediate Python • basics of deep learning • basics of Keras and OpenCV
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build a VGG16 deep learning architecture in Keras • use custom image data generators in Keras • train VGG16 model on two different types of medical image datasets (X-ray, CT) • tune VGG16 model hyperparameters to improve performance
Anuradha Kar
1 week · 4-6 hours per week · INTERMEDIATE
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In this liveProject, you’ll build a VGG16 deep learning model from scratch to analyze medical imagery. A VGG16 is a deep convolutional network model which has shown to achieve high accuracy in image based pattern recognition tasks. You’ll then train your model on X-ray and CT datasets, and plot validation loss, and accuracies vs. epochs. You’ll build an important familiarity with the functional blocks of a DL model, how data must be formatted, and which layers to use to solve your problems.
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Anuradha Kar
Anuradha Kar is a researcher at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, working on deep learning applications in drug discovery. Before this, she worked at the Paris Brain Institute on applying attention-based deep learning models to understanding the evolution of Alzheimer's disease and at École normale supérieure de Lyon in France on deep learning-based analysis of 3D bio-image datasets. She has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the National University of Ireland, Galway. In 2021, she published a liveProject series with Manning Publications titled Transfer Learning for Dicom Image Classification.

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  • Basics of Keras and OpenCV
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  • Basics of deep learning and image classification

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