Transformative potential of AI in Healthcare: definitions, applications, and navigating the ethical Landscape and Public perspectives

M Bekbolatova, J Mayer, CW Ong, M Toma - Healthcare, 2024 - mdpi.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a crucial tool in healthcare with the primary aim of
improving patient outcomes and optimizing healthcare delivery. By harnessing machine …

[HTML][HTML] Speechformer-ctc: Sequential modeling of depression detection with speech temporal classification

J Wang, V Ravi, J Flint, A Alwan - Speech communication, 2024 - Elsevier
Speech-based automatic depression detection systems have been extensively explored
over the past few years. Typically, each speaker is assigned a single label (Depressive or …

Facial image analysis for automated suicide risk detection with deep neural networks

AEE Rashed, AEM Atwa, A Ahmed, M Badawy… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2024 - Springer
Accurately assessing suicide risk is a critical concern in mental health care. Traditional
methods, which often rely on self-reporting and clinical interviews, are limited by their …

SFTNet: A microexpression-based method for depression detection

X Li, X Yi, J Ye, Y Zheng, Q Wang - Computer Methods and Programs in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background and objectives Depression is a typical mental illness, and early screening can
effectively prevent exacerbation of the condition. Many studies have found that the …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing accuracy and privacy in speech-based depression detection through speaker disentanglement

V Ravi, J Wang, J Flint, A Alwan - Computer speech & language, 2024 - Elsevier
Speech signals are valuable biomarkers for assessing an individual's mental health,
including identifying Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) automatically. A frequently used …

Robust and Explainable Depression Identification from Speech Using Vowel-Based Ensemble Learning Approaches

K Feng, T Chaspari - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.18298, 2024 - arxiv.org
This study investigates explainable machine learning algorithms for identifying depression
from speech. Grounded in evidence from speech production that depression affects motor …

On the effects of obfuscating speaker attributes in privacy-aware depression detection

N Aloshban, A Esposito, A Vinciarelli, T Guha - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Detection of depressive symptoms from spoken content has emerged as an efficient Artificial
Intelligence (AI) tool for diagnosing this serious mental health condition. Since speech is a …

Density Adaptive Attention-based Speech Network: Enhancing Feature Understanding for Mental Health Disorders

G Ioannides, A Kieback, A Chadha, A Elkins - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Speech-based depression detection poses significant challenges for automated detection
due to its unique manifestation across individuals and data scarcity. Addressing these …

Privacy-oriented manipulation of speaker representations

F Teixeira, A Abad, B Raj, I Trancoso - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speaker embeddings are ubiquitous, with applications ranging from speaker recognition
and diarization to speech synthesis and voice anonymization. The amount of information …

[HTML][HTML] A Privacy-Preserving Unsupervised Speaker Disentanglement Method for Depression Detection from Speech

V Ravi, J Wang, J Flint, A Alwan - CEUR workshop proceedings, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The proposed method focuses on speaker disentanglement in the context of depression
detection from speech signals. Previous approaches require patient/speaker labels …