IBM's AI for detecting neurological state

Ajay Royyuru and Guillermo Cecchi from IBM Healthcare join Chris and Daniel to discuss the emerging field of computational psychiatry. They talk about how researchers at IBM are applying AI to measure mental and neurological health based on speech, and they give us their perspectives on things like bias in healthcare data, AI augmentation for doctors, and encodings of language structure.

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Featuring:

• Ajay Royyuru – Website
• Guillermo Cecchi – 
• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• IBM 5 in 5: With AI, our words will be a window into our mental health
• Predicting Cognitive Impairments with a Mobile Application
• Automated analysis of recent-onset and prodromal schizophrenia
• Prediction of psychosis across protocols and risk cohorts using automated language analysis

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