AI-Driven Diagnostic Assistance in Medical Inquiry: Reinforcement Learning Algorithm Development and Validation

Xuan Zou   ^{1 *} , MM ;   Weijie He   ^{2, 3, 4 *} , PhD ;   Yu Huang   ^{5 *} , ME ;   Yi Ouyang   ⁵ , PhD ;   Zhen Zhang   ¹ , MM ;   Yu Wu   ¹ , PhD ;   Yongsheng Wu   ¹ , BMed ;   Lili Feng   ⁶ , PhD ;   Sheng Wu   ⁶ , BMed ;   Mengqi Yang   ⁷ , BE ;   Xuyan Chen   ⁶ , PhD ;   Yefeng Zheng   ⁵ , PhD ;   Rui Jiang   ^{4, 8} , PhD ;   Ting Chen   ^{2, 3, 4} , PhD

¹ Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, China

² Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

³ Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

⁴ Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

⁵ Jarvis Research Center, Tencent YouTu Lab, Shenzhen, China

⁶ Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

⁷ Tencent Healthcare, Shenzhen, China

⁸ Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

*these authors contributed equally