ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2020
Evaluation of the Severity of Major Depression Using a Voice Index for Emotional Arousal.
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- Evaluation of emotional arousal level and depression severity using voice-derived sound pressure change acceleration.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
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- Listening to the Mind: Integrating Vocal Biomarkers into Digital Health.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- The voice of depression: speech features as biomarkers for major depressive disorder.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Design and Preliminary Realization of a Screening and Early Warning Health Management System for Populations at High Risk for Depression.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Influence of affective states on informant impression of neuropsychiatric symptoms in people living with MCI.Aging & mental healthArticle
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Recently, the relationship between emotional arousal and depression has been studied. Focusing on this relationship, we first developed an arousal level voice index (ALVI) to measure arousal levels using the Interactive Emotional Dyadic Motion Capture database. Then, we calculated ALVI from the voices of depressed patients from two hospitals (Ginza Taimei Clinic (H1) and National Defense Medical College hospital (H2)) and compared them with the severity of depression as measured by the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D). Depending on the HAM-D score, the datasets were classified into a no depression (HAM-D < 8) and a depression group (HAM-D ≥ 8) for each hospital. A comparison of the mean ALVI between the groups was performed using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test and a significant difference at the level of 10% (
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