Predicting Depression History from a Short Reward/Aversion Task with Behavioral Economic Features

L. Stefanopoulos*, S. Lavlani, B. W. Kim, N. Vike, S. Bari, E. Azcona, S. Woodward, Martin Paul Block, N. Maglaveras, A. K. Katsaggelos, Hans C Breiter

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel example of depression prediction, merging cognitive science with data-driven machine learning. Behavioral economic features were engineered from a short picture rating task. Relative Preference Theory was applied to rating data for quantifying the degree to which participants liked, disliked, or were neutral to several types of pictures; thus, behavioral economic variables including loss aversion, risk aversion, and 13 others that are amenable to psychological interpretation were mined. These variables were features of a logistic regression predictive model that targeted depression in a population-based sample (N = 281) with high test accuracy and no overfitting. Per our review of the literature, we cannot identify other papers that explicitly use behavioral economic features to predict depression with machine learning.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationInternational Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics 2022 - Proceedings of ICBHI 2022
EditorsEsteban Pino, Ratko Magjarevic, Paulo de Carvalho
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages44-50
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9783031592157
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event5th International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, ICBHI 2022 - Concepcion, Chile
Duration: Nov 24 2022Nov 26 2022

Publication series

NameIFMBE Proceedings
Volume108
ISSN (Print)1680-0737
ISSN (Electronic)1433-9277

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, ICBHI 2022
Country/TerritoryChile
CityConcepcion
Period11/24/2211/26/22

Funding

This work has been supported by the Office of Naval Research, Grant N000142112216.

Keywords

  • Behavioral Economic Features
  • Depression prediction
  • Machine Learning

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Bioengineering
  • Biomedical Engineering

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