Automatic Depression Assessment using Machine Learning: A Comprehensive Survey
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| author | Song, Siyang Huo, Yupeng Tang, Shiqing Cheong, Jiaee Gao, Rui Valstar, Michel Gunes, Hatice |
| author_facet | Song, Siyang Huo, Yupeng Tang, Shiqing Cheong, Jiaee Gao, Rui Valstar, Michel Gunes, Hatice |
| contents | Depression is a common mental illness across current human society. Traditional depression assessment relying on inventories and interviews with psychologists frequently suffer from subjective diagnosis results, slow and expensive diagnosis process as well as lack of human resources. Since there is a solid evidence that depression is reflected by various human internal brain activities and external expressive behaviours, early traditional machine learning (ML) and advanced deep learning (DL) models have been widely explored for human behaviour-based automatic depression assessment (ADA) since 2012. However, recent ADA surveys typically only focus on a limited number of human behaviour modalities. Despite being used as a theoretical basis for developing ADA approaches, existing ADA surveys lack a comprehensive review and summary of multi-modal depression-related human behaviours. To bridge this gap, this paper specifically summarises depression-related human behaviours across a range of modalities (e.g. the human brain, verbal language and non-verbal audio/facial/body behaviours). We focus on conducting an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of ML-based ADA approaches for learning depression cues from these behaviours as well as discussing and comparing their distinctive features and limitations. In addition, we also review existing ADA competitions and datasets, identify and discuss the main challenges and opportunities to provide further research directions for future ADA researchers. |
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| spellingShingle | Automatic Depression Assessment using Machine Learning: A Comprehensive Survey Song, Siyang Huo, Yupeng Tang, Shiqing Cheong, Jiaee Gao, Rui Valstar, Michel Gunes, Hatice Neurons and Cognition Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning 68T40 I.2.1 Depression is a common mental illness across current human society. Traditional depression assessment relying on inventories and interviews with psychologists frequently suffer from subjective diagnosis results, slow and expensive diagnosis process as well as lack of human resources. Since there is a solid evidence that depression is reflected by various human internal brain activities and external expressive behaviours, early traditional machine learning (ML) and advanced deep learning (DL) models have been widely explored for human behaviour-based automatic depression assessment (ADA) since 2012. However, recent ADA surveys typically only focus on a limited number of human behaviour modalities. Despite being used as a theoretical basis for developing ADA approaches, existing ADA surveys lack a comprehensive review and summary of multi-modal depression-related human behaviours. To bridge this gap, this paper specifically summarises depression-related human behaviours across a range of modalities (e.g. the human brain, verbal language and non-verbal audio/facial/body behaviours). We focus on conducting an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of ML-based ADA approaches for learning depression cues from these behaviours as well as discussing and comparing their distinctive features and limitations. In addition, we also review existing ADA competitions and datasets, identify and discuss the main challenges and opportunities to provide further research directions for future ADA researchers. |
| title | Automatic Depression Assessment using Machine Learning: A Comprehensive Survey |
| topic | Neurons and Cognition Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning 68T40 I.2.1 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18915 |