Want to know your mental health status? There`s an app for that
(World News Science)

Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, computers can now assist doctors in diagnosing disease and help monitor patient sleep patterns and vital signs from hundreds of miles away. Now, CU Boulder researchers are working to apply machine learning to psychiatry, with a speech-based mobile app that can categorize a patient`s mental health status as well as or better than a human can. `We are not in any way trying to replace clinicians,` says Peter Foltz, a research professor at the Institute of Cognitive Science and co-author of a new paper i n Schizophrenia Bulletin that lays out the promise and potential pitfalls of AI in psychiatry. `But we do believe we can create tools that will...