Towards Automating the Design of Value-Aligned Clinical Protocols

Manel Rodriguez-Soto, Nardine Osman, Carles Sierra, Rocio Cintas Garcia, Cristina Farriols Danes, Montserrat Garcia Retortillo, Silvia Minguez Maso, Jordi Martinez Roldan

Abstract: Clinical protocols are of great use in all medical fields, but their design and evaluation is complex and time-consuming. One of their major complexities is that they need to respect all bioethical values. For those reasons, in this paper, we address the problem of automating the design of clinical protocols that are in alignment with bioethical values. Following the AI alignment literature, we propose an algorithm to design value-aligned protocols in several steps:BPR (Bioethical Protocol Recommender.) First, BPR learns the implicit bioethical value definitions of clinicians. Thereafter, BPR can apply these definitions to evaluate and compare potential actions for any given patient. With that, BPR builds a protocol that recommend those actions with maximum alignment with respect to all bioethical values, applying multi-objective optimisation techniques.