Depression severity estimation from multiple modalities

Evgeny A. Stepanov, Stephane Lathuiliere, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Arindam Ghosh, Radu Laurentiu Vieriu, Nicu Sebe, Giuseppe Riccardi

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Abstract

Depression is a major debilitating disorder which can affect people from all ages. With a continuous increase in the number of annual cases of depression, there is a need to develop automatic techniques for the detection of the presence and its severity. We explore different modalities (speech, behavioral characteristics, language and visual features extracted from face) to design and develop automatic methods for the detection of depression. In psychology literature, the eight-item Patient Health Questionnaire depression scale (PHQ-8) is well established as a tool for measuring the severity of depression. In this paper we aim to automatically predict the total sum of PHQ-8 scores from features extracted from the different modalities. We demonstrate that among the considered modalities, behavioral characteristic features extracted from speech yield the lowest MAE, outperforming the best system at the Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge (AVEC) 2017 depression sub-challenge.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781538642948
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Nov 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event20th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2018 - Ostrava, Czech Republic
Duration: 17 Sept 201820 Sept 2018

Publication series

Name2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2018

Conference

Conference20th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2018
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityOstrava
Period17/09/1820/09/18

Keywords

  • Affective Computing
  • Depression Detection
  • Facial Expressions
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Speech

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