The Chinese University of Hong Kong develops a mobile phone application to help evaluate depression.
Comprehensive Hong Kong Zhongtong News Agency and Sing Tao Daily reported that the Chinese University of Hong Kong was announced on Sunday (June 9) that the hospital developed a mobile app to analyze users by artificial intelligence analysis users.Multi -mode data, including facial expressions, sounds and other biological indicators, and diagnosis of schedule habits collected by wrist motion, can effectively evaluate depression, with an accuracy of up to 80 %.
The Department of Psychiatric Science of the University of Hong Kong and University of Medicine conducted a comparison study from June 2021 to March 2023. A total of 101 patients with depression and 82 people with no mental disorder participated.EssenceParticipants need to wear wrist motion for seven consecutive days to record the scheduled information, and evaluate the happy index in mobile phones developed by Hong Kong and China, as well as the video records of their own expressions, sounds and feelings.
Studies have found that the main biological characteristics of depression patients, including reducing activity time, and disorderly work schedule; more frowning, there are fewer expressions on the corners of the mouth;There is a passive speech, the speed of speech becomes slower and the pause has changed greatly.
The director of the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Hong Kong and University of Medicine and the professor of psychiatric science at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Hong Kong, Run Runguo, said that depression is not only a sad feeling, but also involves physiological, cognitive, emotion, language, and schedule.wait.Therefore, in addition to traditional clinical diagnosis, using electronic measurement and analysis of multi -modal data, it is expected to become a new generation of depression assessment and monitoring tools.
The 2015 Hong Kong mental health survey data shows that 8.3 people per 100 Hong Kong people have depression.At present, clinical evaluation is a golden standard for diagnosis of depression, but mental health services are in short supply in Hong Kong and the world.
The above surveys pointed out that seven of patients in patients with depression and anxiety did not seek mental health services, including lack of consciousness, fear of being discriminated against or seeking services.In order to make patients more willing to seek assistance, the medical community has emerged in recent years to use electronic platforms that do not need face -to -face diagnosis to help diagnosis.
