arXiv:2606. 04632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mechanical ventilation for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) requires balancing competing physiological goals, including oxygenation, lung protection, and acid-base homeostasis.
By Teqi Hao, Yuxuan Fu, Xiaoyu Tan, Shaojie Shi, Bohao Lv, Yinghui Xu, Xihe Qiu
arXiv:2608. 14157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mechanical ventilation is a critical life-support intervention, requiring dynamic adjustments to ventilator settings as a patient's condition evolves.
By Chenran Weng, Joo Seung Lee, Malini Mahendra, Anil Aswani
The paper investigates how the granularity of interventions—single components versus full treatment bundles—affects counterfactual simulations using a clinical world model. By analyzing 945,707 patient-hours from MIMIC-IV, the authors show that interventions are naturally bundled, and editing a single component often represents an unreal scenario. Experiments with Clin‑JEPA on 1,019 ventilation onsets demonstrate that editing the complete bundle produces larger predicted state changes than editing individual settings, indicating that bundle-aware editing better captures treatment sensitivity.
By Fangzhou Wang, Yixuan Yang, Camilla Balzarotti, Rishikesan Kamaleswaran
The dosing of intravenous fluids and vasopressors in sepsis is a sequential decision made under uncertainty and guided largely by clinical judgment, which makes it a natural target for reinforcement learning from historical care. Because a learned policy cannot be trialed on patients, its value must be estimated off-policy, and such estimates can be fragile and optimistic.
arXiv:2608. 16482v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The dosing of intravenous fluids and vasopressors in sepsis is a sequential decision made under uncertainty and guided largely by clinical judgment, which makes it a natural target for reinforcement learning from historical care.
By Marc P\'erez-Roig, David Fern\'andez-Narro, Carlos S\'aez
arXiv:2608. 11410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning (RL) offers considerable promise for optimizing ICU treatment decisions, yet standard evaluation metrics Mean Squared Error (MSE) and Fitted Q-Evaluation (FQE) assess only behavioral imitation and cannot detect Toxic Mimicry, a failure mode in which agents replicate harmful patterns such as treatment withdrawal during comfort-care transitions.
By Hangqi Ren, Junyi Liao
arXiv:2606. 05797v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Longitudinal treatment decisions require predicting potential outcomes under future treatment sequences in the presence of time-varying confounding, heterogeneous patient dynamics, and limited domain-specific data.
By Amirhossein Zare, Amirhessam Zare, Herlock Rahimi, Reza Salarikia, Mohammad Kashkooli
arXiv:2607. 15432v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emergency department (ED) boarding occurs when admitted patients remain in the ED while awaiting inpatient beds.
By QIan Cheng, Nilay Tanik Argon, Aniruddhan Ganesaraman, Serhan Ziya
arXiv:2512.08029v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Clinical decision-making in oncology requires forecasting how disease evolves under treatment, yet most AI systems remain static predictors that ca...
By Tianxingjian Ding, Yuanhao Zou, Chen Chen, Mubarak Shah, Yu Tian
arXiv:2606. 02812v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modeling patient trajectories from longitudinal electronic health records (EHRs) requires reasoning over sparse, noisy, and long-context multimodal sequences.
By Sihang Zeng, Matthew Thompson, Ruth Etzioni, Meliha Yetisgen
arXiv:2607. 08793v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sepsis is a leading cause of mortality, yet optimal treatment policies remain contested.
By Joshua Pickard, Wei Qi, Na Li, Ann Woolley, Lisa Cosimi, Roy Kishony, Deborah Hung
The paper introduces a bounded updating framework for ICU prediction models that freezes the physiological encoder while allowing updates only to the treatment pathway and fusion head. Experiments on 84,792 MIMIC-IV ICU stays across four temporal shifts show that selective adaptation yields more stable explanations—higher rank correlation, better top‑5 feature agreement, and improved retrieval stability—compared to full model adaptation. Predictive performance varies by outcome, but the results demonstrate that explanation stability is governed by the structural boundaries of allowed adaptation rather than merely by freezing components.
By Fatema Ferdous Tamanna, K. M. Merajul Arefin, Md. Abdul Masud