Incorporating causal factors into reinforcement learning for dynamic treatment regimes in HIV.
Journal:
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Published Date:
Apr 9, 2019
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Reinforcement learning (RL) provides a promising technique to solve complex sequential decision making problems in health care domains. However, existing studies simply apply naive RL algorithms in discovering optimal treatment strategies for a targeted problem. This kind of direct applications ignores the abundant causal relationships between treatment options and the associated outcomes that are inherent in medical domains.