Hierarchical Apprenticeship Learning for Disease Progression Modeling

Hierarchical Apprenticeship Learning for Disease Progression Modeling

Xi Yang, Ge Gao, Min Chi

Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 2388-2396. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2023/265

Disease progression modeling (DPM) plays an essential role in characterizing patients' historical pathways and predicting their future risks. Apprenticeship learning (AL) aims to induce decision-making policies by observing and imitating expert behaviors. In this paper, we investigate the incorporation of AL-derived patterns into DPM, utilizing a Time-aware Hierarchical EM Energy-based Subsequence (THEMES) AL approach. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study incorporating AL-derived progressive and interventional patterns for DPM. We evaluate the efficacy of this approach in a challenging task of septic shock early prediction, and our results demonstrate that integrating the AL-derived patterns significantly enhances the performance of DPM.
Keywords:
Data Mining: DM: Mining spatial and/or temporal data
Data Mining: DM: Applications
Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications: MDA: Health and medicine