Dr Aleksander Wawer, Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Dr Łukasz Okruszek and Dr Justyna Sarzyńska-Wawer, Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Dr Izabela Chojnicka, Faculty of Psychology of the University of Warsaw (UW) wrote an article for the journal “Cognitive Computation”, in which they presented the use of artificial intelligence in clinical psychology and examined the use of artificial neural networks to detect schizophrenia and autism.
According to the researchers, few-shot machine learning (training a model that learns on small data sets) may bring promising results in text-based diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Psychiatry is one of those fields of medicine where the diagnosis of most disorders is based on the subjective assessment of a psychiatrist and in which there is a lack of objective and automatic diagnostic tools.
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