Reinforcement learning as an innovative model-based approach: Examples from precision dosing, digital health and computational psychiatry

Model-based approaches are instrumental for successful drug development and use. Anchored within pharmacological principles, through mathematical modeling they contribute to the quantification of drug response variability and enables precision dosing. Reinforcement learning (RL)—a set of computation...

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Main Author: Benjamin Ribba
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Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Pharmacology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2022.1094281/full
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description Model-based approaches are instrumental for successful drug development and use. Anchored within pharmacological principles, through mathematical modeling they contribute to the quantification of drug response variability and enables precision dosing. Reinforcement learning (RL)—a set of computational methods addressing optimization problems as a continuous learning process—shows relevance for precision dosing with high flexibility for dosing rule adaptation and for coping with high dimensional efficacy and/or safety markers, constituting a relevant approach to take advantage of data from digital health technologies. RL can also support contributions to the successful development of digital health applications, recognized as key players of the future healthcare systems, in particular for reducing the burden of non-communicable diseases to society. RL is also pivotal in computational psychiatry—a way to characterize mental dysfunctions in terms of aberrant brain computations—and represents an innovative modeling approach forpsychiatric indications such as depression or substance abuse disorders for which digital therapeutics are foreseen as promising modalities.
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Reinforcement learning as an innovative model-based approach: Examples from precision dosing, digital health and computational psychiatry
Frontiers in Pharmacology
pharmacometrics
digital health
reinforcement learning
precision dosing
computational psychiatry
title Reinforcement learning as an innovative model-based approach: Examples from precision dosing, digital health and computational psychiatry
title_full Reinforcement learning as an innovative model-based approach: Examples from precision dosing, digital health and computational psychiatry
title_fullStr Reinforcement learning as an innovative model-based approach: Examples from precision dosing, digital health and computational psychiatry
title_full_unstemmed Reinforcement learning as an innovative model-based approach: Examples from precision dosing, digital health and computational psychiatry
title_short Reinforcement learning as an innovative model-based approach: Examples from precision dosing, digital health and computational psychiatry
title_sort reinforcement learning as an innovative model based approach examples from precision dosing digital health and computational psychiatry
topic pharmacometrics
digital health
reinforcement learning
precision dosing
computational psychiatry
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