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ArticleBrain sciences2023

A Dynamic Probabilistic Model for Heterogeneous Data Fusion: A Pilot Case Study from Computer-Aided Detection of Depression.

Federica Vitale, Bruno Carbonaro, Anna Esposito

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Article in Brain sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Federica VitaleDepartment of Mathematics and Physics, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Viale Lincoln 5, 81100 Caserta, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8750-4110
Bruno CarbonaroDepartment of Mathematics and Physics, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Viale Lincoln 5, 81100 Caserta, Italy.
Anna EspositoDepartment of Psychology, Università degli Studi della Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Viale Ellittico 31, 81100 Caserta, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7268-1795
University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present paper, in the framework of a search for a computer-aided method to detect depression, deals with experimental data of various types, with their correlation, and with the way relevant information about depression delivered by different sets of data can be fused to build a unique body of knowledge about individuals' mental states facilitating the diagnosis and its accuracy. To this aim, it suggests the use of a recently introduced «limiting form» of the kinetic-theoretic language, at present widely used to describe complex systems of objects of the most diverse nature. In this connection, the paper mainly aims to show how a wide range of experimental procedures can be described as examples of this «limiting case» and possibly rendered by this description more effective as methods of prediction from experience. In particular, the paper contains a simple, preliminary application of the method to the detection of depression, to show how the consideration of statistical parameters connected with the analysis of speech can modify, at least in a stochastic sense, each diagnosis of depression delivered by the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II).

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kinetic theorymathematical modelsprobabilityspeech recognitionstatistical parametric speech synthesis

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PMID37759940
PMCPMC10526152
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