ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025
Opportunities and Challenges for Clinical Practice in Detecting Depression Using EEG and Machine Learning.
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- Subject-Wise Depression Screening from Eight-Channel Resting-State EEG Using Asymmetry-Aware Spectral Features and Connectivity Ablation.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Distinguishing Early Depression from Negative Emotion via Multi-Domain EEG Feature Fusion and Multi-Head Additive Attention Network.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Unveiling Major Depressive Disorder Through TMS-EEG: From Traditional to Emerging Approaches.Biomedicines · 2025Review
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Abstract
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality, yet its diagnosis and treatment rates remain low due to its diverse and often overlapping clinical manifestations. In this context, electroencephalography (EEG) has gained attention as a potential objective tool for diagnosing depression. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of EEG in identifying MDD by analyzing 140 EEG recordings from patients diagnosed with depression and healthy volunteers. Using various machine learning (ML) classification models, we achieved up to 80% accuracy in distinguishing individuals with MDD from healthy controls. Despite its promise, this approach has limitations. The variability in the clinical and biological presentations of depression, as well as patient-specific confounding factors, must be carefully considered when integrating ML technologies into clinical practice. Nevertheless, our findings suggest that an EEG-based ML model holds potential as a diagnostic aid for MDD, paving the way for further refinement and clinical application.
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