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ArticleBJPsych open2022

A call for open data to develop mental health digital biomarkers.

Daniel A Adler, Fei Wang, David C Mohr, Deborah Estrin, Cecilia Livesey, Tanzeem Choudhury

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Article in BJPsych open, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Daniel A AdlerCornell Tech, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3328-0312
Fei WangDepartment of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
David C MohrCenter for Behavioral Intervention Technologies and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Deborah EstrinCornell Tech, USA.
Cecilia LiveseyDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Tanzeem ChoudhuryCornell Tech, USA.
Cornell University · USNorthwestern University · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

LifeSense: Transforming Behavioral Assessment of Depression Using Personal Sensing TechnologyR01MH111610 · NIMH · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI KORDING, KONRAD P., MOHR, DAVID CURTIS · 2017 to 2020
$3.2M
Identification of Mild Cognitive Impairment using Machine Learning from Language and Behavior MarkersRF1AG072449 · NIA · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI DODGE, HIROKO HAYAMA, WANG, FEI · 2021 to 2023
$2.6M
NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG072449NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH111610
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Digital biomarkers of mental health, created using data extracted from everyday technologies including smartphones, wearable devices, social media and computer interactions, have the opportunity to revolutionise mental health diagnosis and treatment by providing near-continuous unobtrusive and remote measures of behaviours associated with mental health symptoms. Machine learning models process data traces from these technologies to identify digital biomarkers. In this editorial, we caution clinicians against using digital biomarkers in practice until models are assessed for equitable predictions ('model equity') across demographically diverse patients at scale, behaviours over time, and data types extracted from different devices and platforms. We posit that it will be difficult for any individual clinic or large-scale study to assess and ensure model equity and alternatively call for the creation of a repository of open de-identified data for digital biomarker development.

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Digital technologymachine learningman–machine systemsmental healthremote consultation

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PMID35236540
PMCPMC8935940
OpenAlexW4214825345

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