![Data driven survival](http://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/image/mainnews2012/33918.jpg)
![](http://www.imperial.ac.uk/assets/news/img/main_image_shd.png)
Mathieu Komorowski, MRes and PhD student of Dr Aldo Faisal was awarded a prize for applying reinforcement learning algorithms to improve care
Mathieu Komorowski, MRes and PhD student with Dr Aldo Faisal was awarded the £500 prize for applying reinforcement learning algorithms to improve intensive care survival.
With the ubiquity of data collected in intensive care units the team developed data science methods to mine medical decision making and extra policies that boost patient survival. The winning approach used anartificial intelligence method, called reinforcement learning, to automatically and objectively extract these patterns from databases with over 100,000 patient records.
Article text (excluding photos or graphics) available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons license.
Photos and graphics subject to third party copyright used with permission or © Imperial College London.
Reporter
![Catarina Fernandes](http://www.imperial.ac.uk/assets/news/img/avatar.png)
Catarina Fernandes
Education Office
![Click to expand or contract Click to expand or contract](http://www.imperial.ac.uk/assets/news/img/expand_arrow.png)
Contact details
Email: press.office@imperial.ac.uk
Show all stories by this author