Automatic detection of major depressive disorder via a bag-of-behaviour-words approach

Kun Qian, Hiroyuki Kuromiya, Zhao Ren, Maximilian Schmitt, Zixing Zhang, Toru Nakamura, Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi, Björn W. Schuller, Yoshiharu Yamamoto

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Abstract

In recent years, machine learning has been increasingly applied to the area of mental health diagnosis, treatment, support, research, and clinical administration. In particular, using less-invasive wear-ables combined with the artificial intelligence to monitor, or diagnose the mental diseases has tremendous needs in real practice. To this end, we propose a novel approach for automatic detection of major depressive disorder. Firstly, spontaneous activity physical data are recorded by a watch-type device equipped with an activity monitor. Subsequently, a bag-of-behaviour-words approach is applied to extract higher representations from the raw sensor data in an unsupervised scenario. Finally, a support vector machine is selected as the classifier to make the predictions on screening the major depressive disorder. There are 69 healthy control subjects, and 14 major depressive disorder patients involved in this study. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in a rigorous subject-independent test, which achieves an unweighted average recall at 59.3 % (an accuracy of 66.0 %). This unweighted average recall significantly (p < .05, one-tailed z-test) outperforms human hand-crafted features with an unweighted average recall at 53.6 % (an accuracy of 61.7 %).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationISICDM 2019 - Conference Proceedings
Subtitle of host publication3rd International Symposium on Image Computing and Digital Medicine
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages71-75
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781450372626
DOIs
StatePublished - 24 Aug 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd International Symposium on Image Computing and Digital Medicine, ISICDM 2019 - Xi'an, China
Duration: 24 Aug 201926 Aug 2019

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference3rd International Symposium on Image Computing and Digital Medicine, ISICDM 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period24/08/1926/08/19

Keywords

  • Affective computing
  • Bag-of-behaviour-words
  • Machine learning
  • Major depressive disorder
  • Spontaneous physical activity

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