Abstract
For many mental disorders, latent mental status from multiple-domain psychological or clinical symptoms may perform as a better characterization of the underlying disorder status than a simple summary score of the symptoms, and they may also serve as more reliable and representative features to differentiate treatment responses. Therefore, to address the complexity and heterogeneity of treatment responses for mental disorders, we provide a new paradigm for learning optimal individualized treatment rules (ITRs) by modeling patients’ latent mental status. We first learn the multi-domain latent states at baseline from the observed symptoms under a restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) model, which encodes patients’ heterogeneous symptoms using an economical number of latent variables and yet remains flexible. We then optimize a value function defined by the latent states after treatment by exploiting a transformation of the observed symptoms based on the RBM without modeling the relationship between the latent mental states before and after treatment. The optimal treatment rules are derived using a weighted large margin classifier. We derive the convergence rate of the proposed estimator under the latent models. Simulation studies are conducted to test the performance of the proposed method. Finally, we apply the developed method to real world studies and we demonstrate the utility and advantage of our method in tailoring treatments for patients with major depression, and identify patient subgroups informative for treatment recommendations. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
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