The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many people to limit their social activities, which has resulted in a rise in mental illnesses, particularly depression. To diagnose these illnesses with accuracy and speed, and prevent severe outcomes such as suicide, the use of machine learning has become increasingly important. Additionally, to provide precise and understandable diagnoses for better treatment, AI scientists and researchers must develop interpretable AI-based solutions. This article provides an overview of relevant articles in the field of machine learning and interpretable AI, which helps to understand the advantages and disadvantages of using AI in psychiatry disorder detection applications.

This book explains limitations of current methods in interpretable machine learning. The methods include partial dependence plots (PDP), Accumulated Local Effects (ALE), permutation feature importance, leave-one-covariate out (LOCO) and local interpretable model-agnostic explanations (LIME). All of those methods can be used to explain the behavior and predictions of trained machine learning models. This book is the outcome of the seminar "Limitations of Interpretable Machine Learning" which took place in summer 2019 at the Department of Statistics, LMU Munich.