A new study reveals that Reinforcement Learning (RL) has the potential to revolutionize healthcare by guiding physicians in designing personalized treatment plans. However, significant advancements are needed to overcome data limitations before RL can be widely implemented in clinical settings.
Reinforcement Learning (RL), an artificial intelligence approach, has the potential to guide physicians in designing sequential treatment strategies for better patient outcomes but requires significant improvements before it can be applied in clinical settings, finds a new study. RL is a class of machine learning algorithms able to make a series of decisions over time.
Responsible for recent AI advances, including superhuman performance at chess and Go, RL can use evolving patient conditions, test results and previous treatment responses to suggest the next best step in personalized patient care. This approach is particularly promising for decision making for managing chronic or psychiatric diseases. The study, published in the Proceedings of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) and presented Dec. 13, introduces 'Episodes of Care' (EpiCare), the first RL benchmark for health care. 'Benchmarks have driven improvement across machine learning applications including computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition and self-driving cars. We hope they will now push RL progress in healthcare,' said Dr. Logan Grosenick, assistant professor of neuroscience in psychiatry, who led the research. RL agents refine their actions based on the feedback they receive, gradually learning a policy that enhances their decision-making.'However, our findings show that while current methods are promising, they are exceedingly data hungry,' Dr. Grosenick adds. The researchers first tested the performance of five state-of-the-art online RL models on EpiCar
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