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ArticleDepression and anxiety2025

Method Matters: Enhancing Voice-Based Depression Detection With a New Data Collection Framework.

Dan Vilenchik, Julie Cwikel, Yacov Ezra, Tuvia Hausdorff, Mor Lazarov, Ruslan Sergienko, Rachel Abramovitz, Ilana Schmidt, Alison Stern Perez

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Article in Depression and anxiety, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Dan VilenchikSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, POB 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-3895-688X
Julie CwikelCenter for Women's Health Studies and Promotion, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, POB 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-7890-8081
Yacov EzraFunctional Neurology Out-patient Clinic, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-8514-1950
Tuvia HausdorffSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, POB 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel.
Mor LazarovDepartment of Computer Science, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, POB 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel.
Ruslan SergienkoDepartment of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, POB 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-9583-008X
Rachel AbramovitzCenter for Women's Health Studies and Promotion, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, POB 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel.
Ilana SchmidtCenter for Women's Health Studies and Promotion, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, POB 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel.
Alison Stern PerezCenter for Women's Health Studies and Promotion, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, POB 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-8644-7871

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Depression accounts for a major share of global disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs). Diagnosis typically requires a psychiatrist or lengthy self-assessments, which can be challenging for symptomatic individuals. Developing reliable, noninvasive, and accessible detection methods is a healthcare priority. Voice analysis offers a promising approach for early depression detection, potentially improving treatment access and reducing costs. This paper presents a novel pipeline for depression detection that addresses several critical challenges in the field, including data imbalance, label quality, and model generalizability. Our study utilizes a high-quality, high-depression-prevalence dataset collected from a specialized chronic pain clinic, enabling robust depression detection even with a limited sample size. We obtained a lift in the accuracy of up to 15% over the 50-50 baseline in our 52-patient dataset using a 3-fold cross-validation test (which means the train set is

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PMCPMC12122156

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