Chatbots can provide valuable support to patients in assessing and guiding management of
various health problems particularly when human resources are scarce. Chatbots can be …

Objective: To determine whether smart conversational agents can be used for detection of
neuropsychiatric disorders. Therefore, we reviewed the technologies used, targeted mental …

In a depression-diagnosis-directed clinical session, doctors initiate a conversation with
ample emotional support that guides the patients to expose their symptoms based on clinical …

Background: The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is a brief depression measure that
has been validated. A chatbot version of the PHQ-9 would allow the assessment of …

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), suicide was the fourth leading cause of
death in the world for individuals aged 15 to 29 in 2019. Given the rapid increase in mental …

In recent years, the continuous advancement of artificial intelligence technology has
generated increasing interest in interactive psychological dialogue systems as a means of …

Chatbots can serve as a viable tool for preliminary depression diagnosis via interactive
conversations with potential patients. Nevertheless, the blend of task-oriented and chit-chat …

Depression-diagnosis-oriented chat aims to guide patients in self-expression to collect key
symptoms for depression detection. Recent work focuses on combining task-oriented …

Depression is known as a non-cognitive disturbance that can be seen among different
people all over the world. This pertains to disorders that have affected cognitions and …

While chatbots show promise for large-scale mental health screening, few offer interactive,
free-text conversations, limiting their appeal for self-administered screening and impeding …