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Sepsis is the leading cause of ICU mortality and is difficult to manage due to heterogeneous treatment responses, making individualized treatment strategies essential.
Does a mixture-of-experts reinforcement learning policy improve expected returns for sepsis treatment compared to physician practice in ICU patients?
Does a mixture-of-experts reinforcement learning policy improve expected returns for sepsis treatment compared to physician practice in ICU patients?
A mixture-of-experts reinforcement learning approach combining deep and kernel-based methods outperformed standard physician practice and single-expert models in optimizing simulated treatment strategies for sepsis.
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May inform AI sepsis policies in simulation; leaves open real-world efficacy pending prospective trials.
Sepsis is the leading cause of mortality in the ICU. It is challenging to manage because individual patients respond differently to treatment. Thus, tailoring treatment to the individual patient is essential for the best outcomes. In this paper, we take steps toward this goal by applying a mixture-of-experts framework to personalize sepsis treatment. The mixture model selectively alternates between neighbor-based (kernel) and deep reinforcement learning (DRL) experts depending on patient's current history. On a large retrospective cohort, this mixture-based approach outperforms physician, kernel only, and DRL-only experts.
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