Text-Based Depression Detection from Clinical Interview Transcripts Using a Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network
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2021-01-29
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The threshold of talking to a mental health professional can be too high for several reasons,
which include the stigma on mental health, limited accessibility of mental health
professionals and a lack of self-awareness. As a result, many mental health patients remain
unnoticed and untreated, leading to negative rami cations in the long term. Yet,
how can we ensure that we could screen patients in a timely and non-intrusive manner
to limit the negative consequences? To address this problem, a research pipeline (the
detect-react pipeline) was created with the bachelor thesis of G.W.F.X. Peters Rit. This
thesis focuses on the detect segment, aiming at quantifying the presence of depression
using machine learning techniques. Peters Rit's thesis focuses on developing a chatbot
that can respond appropriately to the quanti ed level of depression. A Bidirectional
Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network (BiLSTM RNN) was developed to
quantify the participants' level of depression based on of clinical interview transcripts.
Accuracy, precision, recall and F1-scores were achieved at 0.85, 0.87, 0.82 and 0.84 respectively.
Even though the performance metrics were relatively high given the sparse
dataset, the research proposes some critical issues in
uencing the clinical deployment
of the model. These issues concern the values of bias, explainability and safety of the
network. Further research needs to be conducted to strengthen the scienti c foundation
and reliability of answering the research question.
Keywords { depression detection, deep learning, LSTM, recurrent neural networks,
computational linguistics, value-sensitive design
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Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen