Machine learning estimation of FVIII pharmacokinetic parameters in Chinese children with severe Hemophilia A
Hemophilia A is a rare inherited bleeding disorder typically managed with coagulation factor VIII (FVIII) replacement therapy. Designing personalized prophylactic regimens requires accurate pharmacokinetic (PK) characterization; current population PK (popPK) and Bayesian approaches provide a principled framework for individualized dosing, but their routine clinical implementation may still be constrained by model specification requirements and practical considerations in data collection and analysis. Here we present a machine learning (ML) framework, incorporating state-of-the-art language models, to predict individual FVIII PK parameters in pediatric patients. Using minimal sampling and routinely collected clinical data, our approach achieves superior performance over the widely adopted WAPPS-Hemo platform in predicting in vivo recovery (IVR) and FVIII half-life. These findings highlight the potential of AI-driven methods to reduce patient burden while improving accuracy in individualized treatment planning for children with severe hemophilia A.
Authors
- Yuntian Wang
- Yuqi Zhong
- Yongqiang Tang
- Shuo Wang
- Di Ai
- Yunqi Zhu
- Zekun Li
- Runhui Wu
- Wensheng Zhang
- Zhenping Chen
- Gang Li
Institutions
- Capital Medical University (CN)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Hainan University (CN)
- Shandong Institute of Automation (CN)
- Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (CN)
- Institute of Automation (CN)
- Beijing Children’s Hospital (CN)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- npj Systems Biology and Applications
- Published
- 2026-02-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41540-026-00674-7
- Primary Topic
- Hemophilia Treatment and Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00