# So I think I've learned the basics of Julia, where do I learn some more advanced content? (specifcally image feature extraction)

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**Category:** Machine Learning\
**Created:** [February 3, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/so-i-think-ive-learned-the-basics-of-julia-where-do-i-learn-some-more-advanced-content-specifcally-image-feature-extraction/34108 "2020-02-03T09:55:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![samantp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@samantp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/samantp)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/so-i-think-ive-learned-the-basics-of-julia-where-do-i-learn-some-more-advanced-content-specifcally-image-feature-extraction/34108/1 "2020-02-03T09:55:53Z")

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I am learning to use Julia for my new research (MRI image feature extraction and classification). The language I am most comfortable with is MATLAB but I also have some basic understanding of python. What I don’t yet have experience in is Machine Learning or Julia, so will need to brush up on both of these topics.

For ML I am tentatively using the [datacamp courses](https://www.datacamp.com/tracks/machine-learning-scientist-with-python) (Machine learning scientist track). These are in python however, and I have struggled to find appropriate courses for Julia (there are several courses listed on the main page but I’m not sure which ones cover the skills I will need to learn to get started extracting features from MR images).

Are there any helpful resources that the community could point me to such that I can get started extracting some features from images? I have been a bit lost with regard to what I should learn (and where to go to learn it) to get started with this. I think I have a good grasp of the fundamentals of programming in Julia at this point but only for general scientific computing, I don’t yet have any experience deploying Julia for ML. If someone could point me to a course that will give me the skills needed to (at least) start extracting useful features from images, that would be a huge help.

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![Joshua\_Bowles](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joshua_bowles/32/4515_2.png) [@Joshua\_Bowles](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Joshua_Bowles)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/so-i-think-ive-learned-the-basics-of-julia-where-do-i-learn-some-more-advanced-content-specifcally-image-feature-extraction/34108/2 "2020-02-11T11:06:56Z")

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Checkout [Julia academy](https://juliaacademy.com/)

Also the book  
[Hands on Computer Vision with Julia](https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/hands-computer-vision-julia). But I think that book is pre-1.0

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**Author:** ![samantp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@samantp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/samantp)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 11:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/so-i-think-ive-learned-the-basics-of-julia-where-do-i-learn-some-more-advanced-content-specifcally-image-feature-extraction/34108/3 "2020-02-11T11:21:03Z")

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Wow! This is an amazing resource, thanks!

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**Author:** ![rajnrao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rajnrao/32/20637_2.png) [@rajnrao](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rajnrao)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/so-i-think-ive-learned-the-basics-of-julia-where-do-i-learn-some-more-advanced-content-specifcally-image-feature-extraction/34108/4 "2020-12-30T14:01:00Z")

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In case you want to go even deeper (pun intended 🙂 ), we’re doing an online course at the University of Michigan. See

> [@U. Michigan Online Course Computational ML for Scientists and Engineers](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/u-michigan-online-course-computational-ml-for-scientists-and-engineers/52574):
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> The University of Michigan’s Continuum Jumpstart Course Computational Machine Learning (ML) for Scientists and Engineers is designed to equip you with the knowledge you need to understand, train, design and machine learning algorithms, particularly deep neural networks, and even deploy them on the cloud. You’ll learn by programming machine learning algorithms from scratch in a hands-on manner using a one-of-a-kind cloud-based interactive computational textbook that will guide you, and check you…

Just FYI - we do Julia from start to finish wth PyTorch/Keras sprinkled in so you can become bilingual and also appreciate all that Julia does really well.

Either way, hope you are enjoying learning ML – it’s a great time for that with so many excellent resources out there.