Fully automated psychiatric diagnosis: Some new possibilities |
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Authors: | Martin Morf Philip Alexander Tom Fuerth |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of Windsor, N9B 3P4, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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Abstract: | A fully automated psychiatric diagnostic system is outlined that would rely on picture-preference items rather than verbal ones and that would involve a tailored approach rather than conventional “brute-strength” testing. The conditions under which such a system can diagnose patients in a way that might arouse their interest and cooperation are discussed. These include a set of diagnostic categories (perhaps a subset from DSM-III), availability of a single-frame video disk unit allowing random access to each frame, a microprocessor system with a memory capacity of about 32,000 bytes, known base rates of the population of interest, and known probabilities of a particular response to the items for each diagnostic category. Some futuristic extensions of the proposed system are suggested. |
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