McKnight's October 25, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) was able to detect depression and anxiety in healthcare workers at the height of the pandemic, a new study found. The technology could be used to support them going forward.
An AI tool used worked effectively to detect distress among conversations between hospital workers and their therapists early on during the pandemic, the study showed.
Researchers examined transcripts from virtual therapy sessions, which helped them spot common phrases used by people with mental illness. All of the individuals’ personal information wasn’t included. The technology is known as natural language processing. It sorts through all the data to identify keywords related to the meaning of the text.
The scientists led by a team at the NYU Grossman...
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