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| author | Liu, Jiang Li, Yujie Zhou, Chan Xie, Yihao Sun, Qilong Shu, Xin Li, Peiwei Yang, Chunyong Zhu, Yiziting Zhu, Jiaqi Chen, Yuwen An, Bo Wu, Hao Yi, Bin |
| author_facet | Liu, Jiang Li, Yujie Zhou, Chan Xie, Yihao Sun, Qilong Shu, Xin Li, Peiwei Yang, Chunyong Zhu, Yiziting Zhu, Jiaqi Chen, Yuwen An, Bo Wu, Hao Yi, Bin |
| contents | Objective: Sepsis is a life-threatening condition caused by severe infection leading to acute organ dysfunction. This study proposes a data-driven metric and a continuous reward function to optimize personalized heparin therapy in surgical sepsis patients. Methods: Data from the MIMIC-IV v1.0 and eICU v2.0 databases were used for model development and evaluation. The training cohort consisted of abdominal surgery patients receiving unfractionated heparin (UFH) after postoperative sepsis onset. We introduce a new RL-based framework: converting the discrete SOFA score to a continuous cxSOFA for more nuanced state and reward functions; Second, defining "good" or "bad" strategies based on cxSOFA by a stepwise manner; Third, proposing a Treatment Effect Comparison Matrix (TECM), analogous to a confusion matrix for classification tasks, to evaluate the treatment strategies. We applied different RL algorithms, Q-Learning, DQN, DDQN, BCQ and CQL to optimize the treatment and comprehensively evaluated the framework. Results: Among the AI-derived strategies, the cxSOFA-CQL model achieved the best performance, reducing mortality from 1.83% to 0.74% with the average hospital stay from 11.11 to 9.42 days. TECM demonstrated consistent outcomes across models, highlighting robustness. Conclusion: The proposed RL framework enables interpretable and robust optimization of heparin therapy in surgical sepsis. Continuous cxSOFA scoring and TECM-based evaluation provide nuanced treatment assessment, showing promise for improving clinical outcomes and decision-support reliability. |
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| spellingShingle | TECM*: A Data-Driven Assessment to Reinforcement Learning Methods and Application to Heparin Treatment Strategy for Surgical Sepsis Liu, Jiang Li, Yujie Zhou, Chan Xie, Yihao Sun, Qilong Shu, Xin Li, Peiwei Yang, Chunyong Zhu, Yiziting Zhu, Jiaqi Chen, Yuwen An, Bo Wu, Hao Yi, Bin Machine Learning Objective: Sepsis is a life-threatening condition caused by severe infection leading to acute organ dysfunction. This study proposes a data-driven metric and a continuous reward function to optimize personalized heparin therapy in surgical sepsis patients. Methods: Data from the MIMIC-IV v1.0 and eICU v2.0 databases were used for model development and evaluation. The training cohort consisted of abdominal surgery patients receiving unfractionated heparin (UFH) after postoperative sepsis onset. We introduce a new RL-based framework: converting the discrete SOFA score to a continuous cxSOFA for more nuanced state and reward functions; Second, defining "good" or "bad" strategies based on cxSOFA by a stepwise manner; Third, proposing a Treatment Effect Comparison Matrix (TECM), analogous to a confusion matrix for classification tasks, to evaluate the treatment strategies. We applied different RL algorithms, Q-Learning, DQN, DDQN, BCQ and CQL to optimize the treatment and comprehensively evaluated the framework. Results: Among the AI-derived strategies, the cxSOFA-CQL model achieved the best performance, reducing mortality from 1.83% to 0.74% with the average hospital stay from 11.11 to 9.42 days. TECM demonstrated consistent outcomes across models, highlighting robustness. Conclusion: The proposed RL framework enables interpretable and robust optimization of heparin therapy in surgical sepsis. Continuous cxSOFA scoring and TECM-based evaluation provide nuanced treatment assessment, showing promise for improving clinical outcomes and decision-support reliability. |
| title | TECM*: A Data-Driven Assessment to Reinforcement Learning Methods and Application to Heparin Treatment Strategy for Surgical Sepsis |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10973 |