What Symptoms and How Long? An Interpretable AI Approach for Depression Detection in Social Media

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13127v2
• Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 01:54:26 GMT
• Title: What Symptoms and How Long? An Interpretable AI Approach for Depression Detection in Social Media
• Authors: Junwei Kuang, Jiaheng Xie and Zhijun Yan
• Abstract summary: Depression is the most prevalent and serious mental illness, which induces grave financial and societal ramifications. This study contributes to IS literature with a novel interpretable deep learning model for depression detection in social media.
• Score: 0.5156484100374058
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: 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 based on the importance score or attention weights, these explanations misalign with the clinical depression diagnosis criterion that is based on depressive symptoms. To fill this gap, we follow the computational design science paradigm to 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 using a large-scale dataset show that MSTPNet outperforms state-of-the-art depression detection methods with an F1-score of 0.851. This result also reveals new symptoms that are unnoted in the survey approach, such as sharing admiration for a different life. 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. In practice, our proposed method can be implemented in social media platforms to provide personalized online resources for detected depressed patients.

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