AI Can Detect Mental Illness Through Speech-Based Mobile App Analytics Insight

The advances in AI has enabled computers to assist doctors in detecting diseases and help keep a check on patient health remotely. Now, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) are working to leverage ML to psychiatry using a speech-based mobile app. Peter Foltz, a research professor at the Institute of Cognitive Science says – "We are not in any way trying to replace clinicians. But we do believe we can create tools that will allow them to better monitor their patients." Notably, he is also the co-author of a new paper in Schizophrenia Bulletin that illustrates the promise and potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence in psychiatry.