End-to-End AI Projects in Biomedical Computing
I'm Arel, a high-school student teaching myself applied machine learning by building complete projects — mostly in medicine and biology. For each one I start from a public dataset, train and evaluate a model, and ship it as an app or an in-browser demo you can try. What I care about most is being honest about the results: every project reports real metrics on held-out data and says where it falls short. Everything here is educational — none of it is a medical device.
Biomedical projects
MoleCheck
Privacy-preserving skin-lesion analysis: a YOLO11 computer-vision classifier trained on 11,720 dermatology images, running fully on-device via Flutter and TensorFlow Lite so no user data leaves the phone.
ECG Arrhythmia Classification
A 1D convolutional neural network for heartbeat classification on the MIT-BIH database, with a rigorous inter-patient evaluation documenting the drop from 96% in controlled settings to 44% on unseen patients.
ADHD Classification from EEG
A multi-channel 1D CNN classifying pediatric EEG by study group, evaluated with a strict subject-level split to measure genuine generalization — 92% accuracy on unseen subjects.
Leukemia Cell Subtyping
A computer-vision classifier subtyping leukemic blood cells across four classes at 99.8%, with a critical analysis of why that figure reflects a dataset limitation rather than true clinical performance.
Additional projects
Two projects outside the biomedical focus, included to show broader range in computer science — reinforcement learning and applied machine learning on financial time series.
Stock Volatility & Sentiment
A neural network predicting next-week volatility risk from price and news-sentiment features, including a controlled ablation demonstrating that the sentiment signal did not improve performance.
Autonomous Pentest Agent
A reinforcement-learning agent that learns efficient vulnerability-discovery strategies against a sandboxed web application, outperforming a random baseline sixfold — with a defensive extension for detecting agentic ransomware.
Computer Science + Bioengineering
The biomedical projects above map onto the CS + Bioengineering path at Illinois: the EEG and ECG work sits alongside Grainger's neural-engineering focus, while the dermatology and blood-smear classifiers align with its bioimaging and computational-and-systems-biology research — all built with the honest, leakage-aware evaluation the field demands. Read the full CS + BIOE breakdown →