PTSD: New Detection System - Speech
AI Identifies PTSD Based on Snippets of Speec h Source: US Army Medical Tech Breakthrough from NYU School of Medicine Researchers at the New York University School of Medicine have invented a new, objective AI system to identify patients with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This disease is notoriously difficult and time consuming to diagnose. Doctors have relied on one-on-one conversations with patients and self-referrals. Speech Tech Identifier The NYU team used recorded interviews with 53 veterans with PTSD and 78 without the disorder. The recordings were processed by software into "short spurts of talk". An algorithm analyzed the spurts for factors associated with PTSD like unclear speech and a lifeless, metallic tone. The system identified the disorder with 89% accuracy. New, Accurate Test Progress to develop an objective test like the NYU one has been elusive until now. The NYU system is a specialty designed computer pr...