• Smart Media Journal
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.48-54
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• 2021

Sepsis is one of the leading causes of mortality globally, and it costs billions of dollars annually. However, treating septic patients is currently highly challenging, and more research is needed into a general treatment method for sepsis. Therefore, in this work, we propose a reinforcement learning method for learning the optimal treatment strategies for septic patients. We model the patient physiological time series data as the input for a deep recurrent Q-network that learns reliable treatment policies. We evaluate our model using an off-policy evaluation method, and the experimental results indicate that it outperforms the physicians' policy, reducing patient mortality up to 3.04%. Thus, our model can be used as a tool to reduce patient mortality by supporting clinicians in making dynamic decisions.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.9-15
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• 2023

Existing simple statistics-based recommendation systems rely solely on students' course enrollment history data, making it difficult to identify classes that match students' preferences. To address this issue, this study proposes a personalized major subject recommendation system based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL). This system gauges the similarity between students based on structured data, such as the student's department, grade level, and course history. Based on this information, it recommends the most suitable major subjects by comprehensively considering information about each available major subject and evaluations of the student's courses. We confirmed that this DRL-based recommendation system provides useful insights for university students while selecting their major subjects, and our simulation results indicate that it outperforms conventional statistics-based recommendation systems by approximately 20%. In light of these results, we propose a new system that offers personalized subject recommendations by incorporating students' course evaluations. This system is expected to assist students significantly in finding major subjects that align with their preferences and academic goals.