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Paper Number
1005
Paper Type
short
Description
Depression is the most prevalent and serious mental illness, which induces grave financial and societal ramifications. Depression detection is key for early intervention to mitigate those consequences. Such a high-stake decision inherently necessitates interpretability. Although a few depression detection studies attempt to explain the decision, these explanations misalign with the clinical depression diagnosis criterion that is based on depressive symptoms. To fill this gap, we develop a novel Multi-Scale Temporal Prototype Network (MSTPNet). MSTPNet innovatively detects and interprets depressive symptoms as well as how long they last. Extensive empirical analyses show that MSTPNet outperforms state-of-the-art depression detection methods. This result also reveals new symptoms that are unnoted in the survey approach. We further conduct a user study to demonstrate its superiority over the benchmarks in interpretability. This study contributes to IS literature with a novel interpretable deep learning model for depression detection in social media.
Recommended Citation
Kuang, Junwei; Xie, Jiaheng; and Yan, Zhijun, "What Symptoms and How Long? An Interpretable AI Approach for Depression Detection in Social Media" (2023). ICIS 2023 Proceedings. 4.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2023/dab_sc/dab_sc/4
What Symptoms and How Long? An Interpretable AI Approach for Depression Detection in Social Media
Depression is the most prevalent and serious mental illness, which induces grave financial and societal ramifications. Depression detection is key for early intervention to mitigate those consequences. Such a high-stake decision inherently necessitates interpretability. Although a few depression detection studies attempt to explain the decision, these explanations misalign with the clinical depression diagnosis criterion that is based on depressive symptoms. To fill this gap, we develop a novel Multi-Scale Temporal Prototype Network (MSTPNet). MSTPNet innovatively detects and interprets depressive symptoms as well as how long they last. Extensive empirical analyses show that MSTPNet outperforms state-of-the-art depression detection methods. This result also reveals new symptoms that are unnoted in the survey approach. We further conduct a user study to demonstrate its superiority over the benchmarks in interpretability. This study contributes to IS literature with a novel interpretable deep learning model for depression detection in social media.
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