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Suicidal individuals can be identified through a new algorithm, according to a new study published Monday. A computer program was created by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of Pittsburgh (UP) to become a potential method for diagnosing mental health conditions in the near future. The algorithm proved to be 85 percent accurate in identifying subjects that possessed suicidal tendencies. Researchers analyzed the way suicidal individuals think and feel about life and death through brain scans and artificial intelligence, in a small study published in Nature Human Behaviour. Patterns in the data were examined to see how the participant's brain lit up through a fMRI machine.