Given the widespread prevalence of depression and its consequential impact on individuals and society, it is crucial to obtain objective measures for early diagnosis and intervention. As a multidisciplinary topic, these objective measures should be interpretable and accessible to health care professionals, ensuring effective collaboration and treatment planning in the realm of mental health care.
arXiv:2606. 25606v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Given the widespread prevalence of depression and its consequential impact on individuals and society, it is crucial to obtain objective measures for early diagnosis and intervention.
arXiv:2606. 17437v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated classification of standard echocardiographic views is crucial for efficient clinical workflow but faces three main challenges.
arXiv:2604. 11730v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Using behavioural science, health interventions focus on behaviour change by providing a framework to help patients acquire and maintain healthy habits that improve medical outcomes.
The paper evaluates deep learning models for electrocardiogram‑based emotion recognition, focusing on generalization across datasets rather than dataset‑specific performance. It introduces two open‑source tools—ARRC for standardized benchmarking and ARDT for inter‑dataset training—to merge three public AER datasets (CUADS, ASCERTAIN, DREAMER) into a more variable benchmark. Using these tools, the authors compare three prominent deep learning architectures and two CNN baselines with hyperparameter tuning and 10‑fold cross‑validation, revealing trade‑offs between accuracy and model complexity and providing a reproducible benchmark for future research.
arXiv:2501. 16106v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal depression recognition for clinical interviews (MDRC) have demonstrated the potential of AI systems by integrating textual, acoustic, and facial cues.
arXiv:2606. 11197v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech-based automatic estimation of depression levels is essential for enabling early detection and timely intervention, particularly in resource-constrained mental health settings.
The paper investigates how to adapt visualization techniques—such as saliency maps and Grad‑CAM—to convolutional‑recurrent neural networks (CNN+RNN) used for time‑series anomaly detection in video data. It combines VGG19 for feature extraction with a GRU for sequential analysis, noting that the TimeDistributed layer complicates gradient propagation and weakens the link between spatial and temporal information, thereby reducing the effectiveness of standard visualization methods. The authors propose adaptations of these techniques to better interpret models that incorporate a temporal dimension, highlighting both the challenges and the potential of extending static‑image interpretation strategies to temporal models.
arXiv:2609.22631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate automated interpretation of electrocardio- grams (ECGs) is essential for early detection of cardiac condi- tions such as myocardial infarction...
arXiv:2607. 02680v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: MLLMs have shown strong zero-shot capabilities across diverse inputs such as across images, video, audio, and text.
The paper introduces a multimodal emotion recognition framework that combines audio and visual feature extraction with an attention-based fusion strategy. Audio features include Wav2Vec2 embeddings, MFCCs, and statistical acoustic descriptors, fused via a BiLSTM, while video features are extracted using a ResNet50-BiLSTM architecture. A multi-head attention mechanism fuses these modalities, and experiments on MELD and IEMOCAP show significant accuracy and robustness gains, especially in unbalanced data settings.
arXiv:2512. 21414v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent tool-use frameworks powered by vision-language models (VLMs) improve image understanding by grounding model predictions with specialized tools.
arXiv:2604. 15280v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding emotions is a fundamental ability for intelligent systems to be able to interact with humans.