Course Code: dlv-c
Duration: 35 hours
Prerequisites:

There are no specific requirements needed to attend this course.

Course Outline:

Deep Learning vs Other Methods

  • When Deep Learning is suitable
  • Limits of Deep Learning
  • Machine Learning Limitations
  • Comparing Performance and costs of different methods

Deep Learning Fundamentals

  • Network Architectures (and Layers)
  • Forward / Backward models
  • Loss functions
  • Layer types
  • Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
  • Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and LSTMs
  • Preprocessing methods
  • Postprocessing techniques

Design and Deployment

  • Data preparation
  • Selecting pre and post processing methods
  • Designing products with deep learning
  • Planning for deployment at scale
  • Assessing the results of layers and CNNs
  • Monitoring training quantitatively and graphically
  • Optimization strategies

Models

  • Regression - % Density of a Mammogram
  • Classification - Severity Categorization
  • Stretch: Primer on text analysis with deep learning