AI in Healthcare October 2, 2021
Researchers have demonstrated the feasibility of AI-based smartphone interventions for young people who have attempted suicide and may try again.
While the subjects were simulated patients, the preclinical work also succeeded in showing that Bayesian network modeling is “an accurate and very efficient branch of AI in psychiatry and clinical psychology,” the authors state.
That’s a key finding in a specialty short on big datasets for algorithm training and validation, they suggest.
The work was conducted in France to accord with digital healthcare guidelines set by the American Psychiatric Association and is posted in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Olivier Bonnot, MD, PhD, of Nantes University Hospital Center and colleagues showed how a smartphone app that twice daily gauges...