arXiv:2511.07473cs.LGcs.CY2025-11

用下游预测效果反馈优化电子病历表型标注,提升癌症风险预测准确率。

RELEAP: Reinforcement-Enhanced Label-Efficient Active Phenotyping for Electronic Health Records

  • 基于强化学习动态选择最能提升预测性能的病例标注
  • 肺癌风险预测AUC从0.774升至0.805,生存C指数从0.718升至0.752
  • 适合医疗数据标注成本高、需精准表型构建的研究者

电子健康记录(EHR)表型常依赖噪声标签,影响下游风险预测可靠性。主动学习可降低标注成本,但多数方法依赖固定规则,无法确保表型优化真正提升预测表现。本文提出基于强化学习的标签高效主动表型框架RELEAP,通过下游预测模型的反馈动态调整样本选择策略。在杜克大学健康系统(DUHS)2014–2024年去标识数据集上,使用逻辑回归和惩罚性Cox生存模型评估。结果表明,RELEAP持续优于噪声标签基线和单一策略主动学习方法:逻辑回归AUC由0.774提升至0.805,生存模型C-index由0.718提升至0.752。利用下游性能反馈,其改进过程更平稳稳定。该方法将表型优化与预测效果直接关联,提供比固定规则更合理的主动学习范式,显著减少人工审阅工作量,增强基于EHR的风险预测可靠性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Objective: Electronic health record (EHR) phenotyping often relies on noisy proxy labels, which undermine the reliability of downstream risk prediction. Active learning can reduce annotation costs, but most rely on fixed heuristics and do not ensure that phenotype refinement improves prediction performance. Our goal was to develop a framework that directly uses downstream prediction performance as feedback to guide phenotype correction and sample selection under constrained labeling budgets. Materials and Methods: We propose Reinforcement-Enhanced Label-Efficient Active Phenotyping (RELEAP), a reinforcement learning-based active learning framework. RELEAP adaptively integrates multiple querying strategies and, unlike prior methods, updates its policy based on feedback from downstream models. We evaluated RELEAP on a de-identified Duke University Health System (DUHS) cohort (2014-2024) for incident lung cancer risk prediction, using logistic regression and penalized Cox survival models. Performance was benchmarked against noisy-label baselines and single-strategy active learning. Results: RELEAP consistently outperformed all baselines. Logistic AUC increased from 0.774 to 0.805 and survival C-index from 0.718 to 0.752. Using downstream performance as feedback, RELEAP produced smoother and more stable gains than heuristic methods under the same labeling budget. Discussion: By linking phenotype refinement to prediction outcomes, RELEAP learns which samples most improve downstream discrimination and calibration, offering a more principled alternative to fixed active learning rules. Conclusion: RELEAP optimizes phenotype correction through downstream feedback, offering a scalable, label-efficient paradigm that reduces manual chart review and enhances the reliability of EHR-based risk prediction.

医疗表型主动学习强化学习风险预测

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