Enhancing Depression Diagnosis with Chain-of-Thought Prompting

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Main Authors: Shi, Elysia, Manda, Adithri, Chowdhury, London, Arun, Runeema, Zhu, Kevin, Lam, Michael
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Published: 2024
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author Shi, Elysia
Manda, Adithri
Chowdhury, London
Arun, Runeema
Zhu, Kevin
Lam, Michael
author_facet Shi, Elysia
Manda, Adithri
Chowdhury, London
Arun, Runeema
Zhu, Kevin
Lam, Michael
contents When using AI to detect signs of depressive disorder, AI models habitually draw preemptive conclusions. We theorize that using chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting to evaluate Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8) scores will improve the accuracy of the scores determined by AI models. In our findings, when the models reasoned with CoT, the estimated PHQ-8 scores were consistently closer on average to the accepted true scores reported by each participant compared to when not using CoT. Our goal is to expand upon AI models' understanding of the intricacies of human conversation, allowing them to more effectively assess a patient's feelings and tone, therefore being able to more accurately discern mental disorder symptoms; ultimately, we hope to augment AI models' abilities, so that they can be widely accessible and used in the medical field.
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spellingShingle Enhancing Depression Diagnosis with Chain-of-Thought Prompting
Shi, Elysia
Manda, Adithri
Chowdhury, London
Arun, Runeema
Zhu, Kevin
Lam, Michael
Computation and Language
When using AI to detect signs of depressive disorder, AI models habitually draw preemptive conclusions. We theorize that using chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting to evaluate Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8) scores will improve the accuracy of the scores determined by AI models. In our findings, when the models reasoned with CoT, the estimated PHQ-8 scores were consistently closer on average to the accepted true scores reported by each participant compared to when not using CoT. Our goal is to expand upon AI models' understanding of the intricacies of human conversation, allowing them to more effectively assess a patient's feelings and tone, therefore being able to more accurately discern mental disorder symptoms; ultimately, we hope to augment AI models' abilities, so that they can be widely accessible and used in the medical field.
title Enhancing Depression Diagnosis with Chain-of-Thought Prompting
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14053