Detecting and Measuring Depression on Social Media by Machine Learning Approach: a Review (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danxia Liu ◽  
Jam Farooq Ahmed ◽  
Muhammad Shahid ◽  
Jing Guo ◽  
Xing Lin Feng

BACKGROUND Detection of depression gained prominence soon after this troublesome disease emerged as a serious public health concern worldwide. OBJECTIVE The aim of this review intends to summarize methods to measure depressive symptoms on social media by machine learning approaches. METHODS A bibliographic retrieval was conducted from January 1990 until December 2020 in Google Scholar, PubMed, Medline, ERIC, PsycINFO, and BioMed. Seventeen studies met the inclusion criteria. RESULTS Of the fifteen studies, ten defined depression based on self-reported mental status, five defined based on self-declared mental status, and the last two were based on community membership. Besides, among the fifteen studies, thirteen conducted depression detection with Supervised Learning (SL) approaches, three used Unsupervised Learning (UL) approaches to detect depression, while the remaining one did not report the ML approach. Challenges such as sample scale, optimizing of predicting approaches and features, generalizability, issues about privacy, and ethic are still open to research. CONCLUSIONS ML approaches might work effectively for depression detection using text data from users on social media and it could serve as a complementary tool in practice about public psychological health.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Jaeger ◽  
Simone Fulle ◽  
Samo Turk

Inspired by natural language processing techniques we here introduce Mol2vec which is an unsupervised machine learning approach to learn vector representations of molecular substructures. Similarly, to the Word2vec models where vectors of closely related words are in close proximity in the vector space, Mol2vec learns vector representations of molecular substructures that are pointing in similar directions for chemically related substructures. Compounds can finally be encoded as vectors by summing up vectors of the individual substructures and, for instance, feed into supervised machine learning approaches to predict compound properties. The underlying substructure vector embeddings are obtained by training an unsupervised machine learning approach on a so-called corpus of compounds that consists of all available chemical matter. The resulting Mol2vec model is pre-trained once, yields dense vector representations and overcomes drawbacks of common compound feature representations such as sparseness and bit collisions. The prediction capabilities are demonstrated on several compound property and bioactivity data sets and compared with results obtained for Morgan fingerprints as reference compound representation. Mol2vec can be easily combined with ProtVec, which employs the same Word2vec concept on protein sequences, resulting in a proteochemometric approach that is alignment independent and can be thus also easily used for proteins with low sequence similarities.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oskar Flygare ◽  
Jesper Enander ◽  
Erik Andersson ◽  
Brjánn Ljótsson ◽  
Volen Z Ivanov ◽  
...  

**Background:** Previous attempts to identify predictors of treatment outcomes in body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) have yielded inconsistent findings. One way to increase precision and clinical utility could be to use machine learning methods, which can incorporate multiple non-linear associations in prediction models. **Methods:** This study used a random forests machine learning approach to test if it is possible to reliably predict remission from BDD in a sample of 88 individuals that had received internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for BDD. The random forest models were compared to traditional logistic regression analyses. **Results:** Random forests correctly identified 78% of participants as remitters or non-remitters at post-treatment. The accuracy of prediction was lower in subsequent follow-ups (68%, 66% and 61% correctly classified at 3-, 12- and 24-month follow-ups, respectively). Depressive symptoms, treatment credibility, working alliance, and initial severity of BDD were among the most important predictors at the beginning of treatment. By contrast, the logistic regression models did not identify consistent and strong predictors of remission from BDD. **Conclusions:** The results provide initial support for the clinical utility of machine learning approaches in the prediction of outcomes of patients with BDD. **Trial registration:** ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02010619.


Author(s):  
Jeffrey G Klann ◽  
Griffin M Weber ◽  
Hossein Estiri ◽  
Bertrand Moal ◽  
Paul Avillach ◽  
...  

Abstract Introduction The Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE) is an international collaboration addressing COVID-19 with federated analyses of electronic health record (EHR) data. Objective We sought to develop and validate a computable phenotype for COVID-19 severity. Methods Twelve 4CE sites participated. First we developed an EHR-based severity phenotype consisting of six code classes, and we validated it on patient hospitalization data from the 12 4CE clinical sites against the outcomes of ICU admission and/or death. We also piloted an alternative machine-learning approach and compared selected predictors of severity to the 4CE phenotype at one site. Results The full 4CE severity phenotype had pooled sensitivity of 0.73 and specificity 0.83 for the combined outcome of ICU admission and/or death. The sensitivity of individual code categories for acuity had high variability - up to 0.65 across sites. At one pilot site, the expert-derived phenotype had mean AUC 0.903 (95% CI: 0.886, 0.921), compared to AUC 0.956 (95% CI: 0.952, 0.959) for the machine-learning approach. Billing codes were poor proxies of ICU admission, with as low as 49% precision and recall compared to chart review. Discussion We developed a severity phenotype using 6 code classes that proved resilient to coding variability across international institutions. In contrast, machine-learning approaches may overfit hospital-specific orders. Manual chart review revealed discrepancies even in the gold-standard outcomes, possibly due to heterogeneous pandemic conditions. Conclusion We developed an EHR-based severity phenotype for COVID-19 in hospitalized patients and validated it at 12 international sites.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-19
Author(s):  
Owes Khan ◽  
Geri Shahini ◽  
Wolfram Hardt

Automotive technologies are ever-increasinglybecoming digital. Highly autonomous driving togetherwith digital E/E control mechanisms include thousandsof software applications which are called as software components. Together with the industry requirements, and rigorous software development processes, mappingof components as a software pool becomes very difficult.This article analyses and discusses the integration possiblilities of machine learning approaches to our previously introduced concept of mapping of software components through a common software pool.


Author(s):  
SHWETA MAHAJAN

There are plenty of social media webpages and platforms producing the textual data. These different kind of a data needs to be analysed and processed to extract meaningful information from raw data. Classification of text plays a vital role in extraction of useful information along with summarization, text retrieval. In our work we have considered the problem of news classification using machine learning approach. Currently we have a news related dataset which having various types of data like entertainment, education, sports, politics, etc. On this data we have applying classification algorithm with some word vectorizing techniques in order to get best result. The results which we got that have been compared on different parameters like Precision, Recall, F1 Score, accuracy for performance improvement.


2022 ◽  
pp. 181-194
Author(s):  
Bala Krishna Priya G. ◽  
Jabeen Sultana ◽  
Usha Rani M.

Mining Telugu news data and categorizing based on public sentiments is quite important since a lot of fake news emerged with rise of social media. Identifying whether news text is positive, negative, or neutral and later classifying the data in which areas they fall like business, editorial, entertainment, nation, and sports is included throughout this research work. This research work proposes an efficient model by adopting machine learning classifiers to perform classification on Telugu news data. The results obtained by various machine-learning models are compared, and an efficient model is found, and it is observed that the proposed model outperformed with reference to accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score.


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