Effective Medical Test Suggestions Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations • 30 May 2019 • Yang-En Chen, Kai-Fu Tang, Yu-Shao Peng, Edward Y. Chang

Effective medical test suggestions benefit both patients and physicians to conserve time and improve diagnosis accuracy.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

REFUEL: Exploring Sparse Features in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Fast Disease Diagnosis

no code implementations • NeurIPS 2018 • Yu-Shao Peng, Kai-Fu Tang, Hsuan-Tien Lin, Edward Chang

This paper proposes REFUEL, a reinforcement learning method with two techniques: {\em reward shaping} and {\em feature rebuilding}, to improve the performance of online symptom checking for disease diagnosis.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)