Identifying psychiatric manifestations in schizophrenia and depression from audio-visual behavioural indicators through a machine-learning approach
Shihao Xu (Nanyang Technological University)
Zixu Yang (Institute of Mental Health)
Debsubhra Chakraborty (Nanyang Technological University)
Yi Han Victoria Chua (Nanyang Technological University)
Serenella Tolomeo (National University of Singapore)
Stefan Winkler (National University of Singapore)
Michel Birnbaum (Mindsigns Health)
Bhing Leet Tan (Institute of Mental Health)
Jimmy Lee (Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Institute of Mental Health)
Justin Dauwels (TU Delft - Signal Processing Systems)
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Abstract
Schizophrenia (SCZ) and depression (MDD) are two chronic mental disorders that seriously affect the quality of life of millions of people worldwide. We aim to develop machine-learning methods with objective linguistic, speech, facial, and motor behavioral cues to reliably predict the severity of psychopathology or cognitive function, and distinguish diagnosis groups. We collected and analyzed the speech, facial expressions, and body movement recordings of 228 participants (103 SCZ, 50 MDD, and 75 healthy controls) from two separate studies. We created an ensemble machine-learning pipeline and achieved a balanced accuracy of 75.3% for classifying the total score of negative symptoms, 75.6% for the composite score of cognitive deficits, and 73.6% for the total score of general psychiatric symptoms in the mixed sample containing all three diagnostic groups. The proposed system is also able to differentiate between MDD and SCZ with a balanced accuracy of 84.7% and differentiate patients with SCZ or MDD from healthy controls with a balanced accuracy of 82.3%. These results suggest that machine-learning models leveraging audio-visual characteristics can help diagnose, assess, and monitor patients with schizophrenia and depression.
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