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Anonymous ID: 664dd6 April 23, 2019, 3:12 p.m. No.6288507   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8607 >>8608 >>8702 >>8725

Artificial intelligence used to diagnose PTSD by analyzing veterans' voices

 

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in war veterans by analyzing the rhythm and tone of their voices.

 

The study, published Monday, found that the AI tool can distinguish between the voices of those with or without PTSD with 89 per cent accuracy.

 

Researchers gathered speech samples from 53 U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with military-service-related PTSD, as well as those of 78 veterans without the mental health condition.

In January, researchers with Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University combined brain imaging and machine learning to diagnose PTSD with 92 per cent accuracy.

Veterans Affairs Canada estimates that up to 10 per cent of war zone veterans—including peacekeeping forces—will develop PTSD.

 

However, figures released Monday reveal that the number of Afghanistan war veterans receiving federal support for mental-health conditions nearly doubled between over the last four years.

 

The figures, obtained from Veterans Affairs Canada by the Canadian Press through access to information requests, show more than 6,700 military members who served in Afghanistan were receiving disability benefits for mental-health conditions in March 2018, the vast majority of which were struggling with PTSD.

 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/artificial-intelligence-used-to-diagnose-ptsd-by-analyzing-veterans-voices-1.4389599