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ArticlePloS one2020

Integrating questionnaire measures for transdiagnostic psychiatric phenotyping using word2vec.

Aaron Sonabend W, Amelia M Pellegrini, Stephanie Chan, Hannah E Brown, James N Rosenquist, Pieter J Vuijk, Alysa E Doyle, Roy H Perlis, Tianxi Cai

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Aaron Sonabend WDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-6165-9082
Amelia M PellegriniCenter for Quantitative Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Stephanie ChanDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Hannah E BrownCenter for Quantitative Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
James N RosenquistCenter for Quantitative Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Pieter J VuijkCenter for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Alysa E DoyleCenter for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Roy H PerlisCenter for Quantitative Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-5862-6757
Tianxi CaiDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

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Research ProjectP50MH106933 · NIMH · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI KOHANE, ISAAC S. · 2014 to 2018
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NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH106933
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Abstract

backgroundRecent initiatives in psychiatry emphasize the utility of characterizing psychiatric symptoms in a multidimensional manner. However, strategies for applying standard self-report scales for multiaxial assessment have not been well-studied, particularly where the aim is to support both categorical and dimensional phenotypes.

methodsWe propose a method for applying natural language processing to derive dimensional measures of psychiatric symptoms from questionnaire data. We utilized nine self-report symptom measures drawn from a large cellular biobanking study that enrolled individuals with mood and psychotic disorders, as well as healthy controls. To summarize questionnaire results we used word embeddings, a technique to represent words as numeric vectors preserving semantic and syntactic meaning. A low-dimensional approximation to the embedding space was used to derive the proposed succinct summary of symptom profiles. To validate our embedding-based disease profiles, these were compared to presence or absence of axis I diagnoses derived from structured clinical interview, and to objective neurocognitive testing.

resultsUnsupervised and supervised classification to distinguish presence/absence of axis I disorders using survey-level embeddings remained discriminative, with area under the receiver operating characteristic curve up to 0.85, 95% confidence interval (CI) (0.74,0.91) using Gaussian mixture modeling, and cross-validated area under the receiver operating characteristic curve 0.91, 95% CI (0.88,0.94) using logistic regression. Derived symptom measures and estimated Research Domain Criteria scores also associated significantly with performance on neurocognitive tests.

conclusionsOur results support the potential utility of deriving dimensional phenotypic measures in psychiatric illness through the use of word embeddings, while illustrating the challenges in identifying truly orthogonal dimensions.

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PhenotypeSurveys and QuestionnairesAdolescentAdultAgedFemaleHumansMaleMental DisordersMiddle AgedStochastic ProcessesYoung Adult

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PMCPMC7122719

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