MIMIC database for ICU data

Question

Hey folks, has anybody any experience with the MIMIC database? It contains critical care unit data from around 60 000 patients collected at Beth Israel hospital ICUs in Boston. I would like to work with this data and need some tutorials suggestions or first hand experience ... thank you

Answer 1

To be honest I am also looking for one :) And not a basic one, I all passed that. Am looking for more complicated queries, temporary constructs and stuff. I'll let you know when I find it ;)

BTW, which statistics course you're doing? Any worth recommendation?

Answer 2

As I take it, you want to do some data mining of this dataset? Depending on your skillset you might want to do some clustering to group those patients by common traits or make a prediction model based on those data, for example by ethnicity, age, gender and treatment time.

Training prediction models is basically what machine learning is all about. Given that you would like to explore this field, I truly recommend a video course on coursera.org:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

It gives you all the theoretical background, by only to sufficient limits, no hard-stuff maths :) During the course, each basic algorithm is touched, so both prediction and clustering are well explained.
And it is based on MATLAB/Octave as tool, but the methods are universal and can be (even easier than in MATLAB) applied in Python, R or any other programming language.

Answer 3

Oh, I see... I thought you meant a video course or a MOOC 😂

Answer 4

Hi Kuba, thank you so much for your answer! I will check this cours out. Right now I do a statistic course that focuses on regression and after that I will start the coursea ML course. In the meantime I slowly improve in SQL. Can you recommend a nice SQL tutorial online? Thank you!

Answer 5

I do a research fellowship at Harvard medical school right now and can access the Harvard Catalyst course in biostatistics. It’s really good.

https://catalyst.harvard.edu/services/biostatscertificate/