University Of Alberta & IBM Using Artificial Intelligence To Diagnose Schizophrenia

The University of Alberta (UoA) and IBM are collaborating to use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms to help diagnose schizophrenia. Thus far, the approach holds a 74% accuracy rate in using symptom severity to diagnose whether an individual has schizophrenia or not. Approaches such as this fit under the umbrella of "computational psychiatry," a method of mental health diagnosis that uses the application, analysis, or inventions of theoretical, computational, and statistical approaches in order to study mental function and dysfunction. Such approaches are hoped to hasten the process of making mental health diagnoses and administering treatment, as well . . .