Reinforcement learning in clinical medicine: a method to optimize dynamic treatment regime over time

• Published in: Annals of translational medicine Vol. 7; no. 14; p. 345
• Main Author: Zhang, Zhongheng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: China AME Publishing Company 01.07.2019
• Subjects: Big-data Clinical Trial Column; dynamic treatment regime (DTR); Q learning; Reinforcement learning

Precision medicine requires individualized treatment regime for subjects with different clinical characteristics. Machine learning methods have witnessed rapid progress in recent years, which can be employed to make individualized treatment regime in clinical practice. The idea of reinforcement lear...