Research
PUBLICATIONS
Li, W., Denton, B.T., “Multi-model Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes.” (working paper, in preparation)
Li, W., Denton, B.T. and Morgan, T.M., 2023. Optimizing active surveillance for prostate cancer using partially observable Markov decision processes. European Journal of Operational Research, 305(1), pp.386-399.
Otero-Leon, D. F., Li, W., Lavieri, M. S., Denton, B. T., Sussman, J. B., & Hayward, R. (2021, December). Using longitudinal health records to simulate the impact of national treatment guidelines for cardiovascular disease. In 2021 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) (pp. 1-12). IEEE.
Li, W., Denton, B.T., Nieboer, D., Carroll, P.R., Roobol, M.J., Morgan, T.M. and Movember Foundation’s Global Action Plan Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance (GAP3) consortium, 2020. "Comparison of biopsy under‐sampling and annual progression using hidden Markov models to learn from prostate cancer active surveillance studies." Cancer medicine, 9(24), pp.9611-9619.
Olivier, J., Li, W., Nieboer, D., Helleman, J., Roobol, M., Gnanapragasam, V., Frydenberg, M., Sugimoto, M., Carroll, P., Morgan, T.M. and Valdagni, R., 2022. Prostate cancer patients under active surveillance with a suspicious magnetic resonance imaging finding are at increased risk of needing treatment: results of the Movember Foundation’s Global Action Plan Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance (GAP3) consortium. European urology open science, 35, pp.59-67.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“A Multi-POMPD Model for Optimizing Cancer Screening Strategies with Parameter Ambiguity”, co-author with Brian Denton, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, October 2019
“Prostate Cancer Surveillance Using Data-driven Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes”, co-author with Brian Denton, INFORMS Healthcare, Cambridge, MA, July 2019
“A Data-driven POMDP for Optimizing Individualized Surveillance Strategies for Prostate Cancer”, co-author with Daan Nieboer, Todd Morgan, & Brian Denton, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, October 2018
“Optimizing medical treatment decisions for the prevention of heart attack and stroke”, co-author with Lauren Steimle, Jeremy Sussman, Rod Hayward, & Brian Denton, INFORMS Healthcare, Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 2017
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