Enhancing Suicide Risk Assessment: A Speech-Based Automated Approach in Emergency Medicine
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12132v1
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:33:57 GMT
- Title: Enhancing Suicide Risk Assessment: A Speech-Based Automated Approach in Emergency Medicine
- Authors: Shahin Amiriparian, Maurice Gerczuk, Justina Lutz, Wolfgang Strube, Irina Papazova, Alkomiet Hasan, Alexander Kathan, Björn W. Schuller,
- Abstract summary: The delayed access to specialized psychiatric assessments and care for patients at risk of suicidal tendencies in emergency departments creates a notable gap in timely intervention.
We present a non-invasive, speech-based approach for automatic suicide risk assessment.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- Abstract: The delayed access to specialized psychiatric assessments and care for patients at risk of suicidal tendencies in emergency departments creates a notable gap in timely intervention, hindering the provision of adequate mental health support during critical situations. To address this, we present a non-invasive, speech-based approach for automatic suicide risk assessment. For our study, we have collected a novel dataset of speech recordings from $20$ patients from which we extract three sets of features, including wav2vec, interpretable speech and acoustic features, and deep learning-based spectral representations. We proceed by conducting a binary classification to assess suicide risk in a leave-one-subject-out fashion. Our most effective speech model achieves a balanced accuracy of $66.2\,\%$. Moreover, we show that integrating our speech model with a series of patients' metadata, such as the history of suicide attempts or access to firearms, improves the overall result. The metadata integration yields a balanced accuracy of $94.4\,\%$, marking an absolute improvement of $28.2\,\%$, demonstrating the efficacy of our proposed approaches for automatic suicide risk assessment in emergency medicine.
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