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In the wake of the vast population of smart device users worldwide, mobile health (mHealth) technologies are hopeful to generate positive and wide influence on people's health. They are able to provide flexible, affordable and portable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Feiyun Zhu , Peng Liao , Xinliang Zhu , Yaowen Yao , Junzhou Huang

The exponential growth of data-intensive applications has placed unprecedented demands on modern storage systems, necessitating dynamic and efficient optimization strategies. Traditional heuristics employed for storage performance…

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This paper presents the first deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework to estimate the optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes from observational medical data. This framework is more flexible and adaptive for high dimensional action and state…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Ning Liu , Ying Liu , Brent Logan , Zhiyuan Xu , Jian Tang , Yanzhi Wang

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors of this paper organized a Reinforcement Learning (RL) course for a graduate school in the field of data science. We describe the strategy and materials for creating an exciting learning experience…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Jan Ebert , Danimir T. Doncevic , Ramona Kloß , Stefan Kesselheim

In smart healthcare, health monitoring utilizes diverse tools and technologies to analyze patients' real-time biosignal data, enabling immediate actions and interventions. Existing monitoring approaches were designed on the premise that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Ziqiaing Ye , Yulan Gao , Yue Xiao , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato

The vision for precision medicine is to use individual patient characteristics to inform a personalized treatment plan that leads to the best healthcare possible for each patient. Mobile technologies have an important role to play in this…

Personalization is very powerful in improving the effectiveness of health interventions. Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are suitable for learning these tailored interventions from sequential data collected about individuals.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Ali el Hassouni , Mark Hoogendoorn , Martijn van Otterlo , A. E. Eiben , Vesa Muhonen , Eduardo Barbaro

Standard reinforcement learning (RL) aims to find an optimal policy that identifies the best action for each state. However, in healthcare settings, many actions may be near-equivalent with respect to the reward (e.g., survival). We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Shengpu Tang , Aditya Modi , Michael W. Sjoding , Jenna Wiens

Managing physiological variables within clinically safe target zones is a central challenge in healthcare, particularly for chronic conditions such as Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM). Reinforcement learning (RL) offers promise for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 David H. Mguni , Jing Dong , Wanrong Yang , Ziquan Liu , Muhammad Salman Haleem , Baoxiang Wang

We are motivated by the real challenges presented in a human-robot system to develop new designs that are efficient at data level and with performance guarantees such as stability and optimality at systems level. Existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Xiang Gao , Jennie Si , Yue Wen , Minhan Li , He , Huang

Recent advances in both machine learning and Internet-of-Things have attracted attention to automatic Activity Recognition, where users wear a device with sensors and their outputs are mapped to a predefined set of activities. However, few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Taku Yamagata , Raúl Santos-Rodríguez , Ryan McConville , Atis Elsts

Reinforcement learning (RL) holds significant promise for adaptive traffic signal control. While existing RL-based methods demonstrate effectiveness in reducing vehicular congestion, their predominant focus on vehicle-centric optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Bibek Poudel , Xuan Wang , Weizi Li , Lei Zhu , Kevin Heaslip

Online reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly popular for the personalized mobile health (mHealth) intervention. It is able to personalize the type and dose of interventions according to user's ongoing statuses and changing needs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Feiyun Zhu , Peng Liao

Fluctuations of the human heart beat constitute a complex system that has been studied mostly under resting conditions using conventional time series analysis methods. During physical exercise, the variability of the fluctuations is…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-08-13 Matti Molkkari , Giorgio Angelotti , Thorsten Emig , Esa Räsänen

Dynamic treatment regimens (DTRs) aim at tailoring individualized sequential treatment rules that maximize cumulative beneficial outcomes by accommodating patients' heterogeneity in decision-making. For many chronic diseases including type…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-23 Mochuan Liu , Yuanjia Wang , Haoda Fu , Donglin Zeng

We introduce a Reinforcement Learning Psychotherapy AI Companion that generates topic recommendations for therapists based on patient responses. The system uses Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) to generate multi-objective policies for four…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Baihan Lin , Guillermo Cecchi , Djallel Bouneffouf

Adapting the user interface (UI) of software systems to meet the needs and preferences of users is a complex task. The main challenge is to provide the appropriate adaptations at the appropriate time to offer value to end-users. Recent…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Daniel Gaspar-Figueiredo , Marta Fernández-Diego , Ruben Nuredini , Silvia Abrahão , Emilio Insfrán

Background: Clinical diagnosis is typically reached by following a series of steps recommended by guidelines authored by colleges of experts. Accordingly, guidelines play a crucial role in rationalizing clinical decisions but suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Lillian Muyama , Antoine Neuraz , Adrien Coulet

Reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly being used in the healthcare domain, particularly for the development of personalized health adaptive interventions. Inspired by the success of Large Language Models (LLMs), we are interested in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Karine Karine , Benjamin M. Marlin

While just-in-time interventions (JITIs) have effectively targeted common health behaviors, individuals often have unique needs to intervene in personal undesirable actions that can negatively affect physical, mental, and social well-being.…