Improving counterfactual reasoning with kernelised dynamic mixing models
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Journal Article
Abstract
Simulation-based approaches to disease progression allow us to make counterfactual predictions about the effects of an untried series of treatment choices. However, building accurate simulators of disease progression is challenging, limiting the utility of these approaches for real world treatment planning. In this work, we present a novel simulation-based reinforcement learning approach that mixes between models and kernel-based approaches to make its forward predictions. On two real world tasks, managing sepsis and treating HIV, we demonstrate that our approach both learns state-of-the-art treatment policies and can make accurate forward predictions about the effects of treatments on unseen patients.
Date Issued
2018-11-12
Date Acceptance
2018-09-10
Citation
PLoS ONE, 2018, 13 (11)
ISSN
1932-6203
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Journal / Book Title
PLoS ONE
Volume
13
Issue
11
Copyright Statement
© 2018 Parbhoo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30419029
PII: PONE-D-18-15815
Subjects
MD Multidisciplinary
General Science & Technology
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
United States
Article Number
e0205839