Improving clinical decision making beyond the standard of care using artificial intelligence.

Clinical decision making in ulcerative colitis relies on practice guidelines and physician experience, but both have limitations. Guidelines offer broad advice that may not apply to individual patients while physician experience is subjective and error prone. Dr. Rudrapatna will address these limitations using reinforcement learning, a type of artificial intelligence that learns to make optimal decisions over time. Reinforcement learning has successfully been used in autonomous driving and it will now be adapted and applied to ulcerative colitis.