Mental-health institutions to launch AI-assisted depression screening project
NIMHANS, IIT Kharagpur and the Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi Regional Institute of Mental Health in Tezpur are due to launch HEADS on September 24. The project’s name expands to Human-in-the-loop Evaluation of Assisted Depression Screening and is intended to address a mental-healthcare gap.
NIMHANS, IIT Kharagpur and the Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi Regional Institute of Mental Health in Tezpur are set to formally launch an artificial-intelligence project focused on depression screening, The Hindu reports. The initiative is called HEADS, an acronym for Human-in-the-loop Evaluation of Assisted Depression Screening. Its launch is scheduled for September 24.
The project is described as an effort to help bridge India’s mental-healthcare gap. The supplied material does not explain how the system will operate, what information it will assess or how clinicians and other mental-health professionals will use its results. The inclusion of “human-in-the-loop” in the project’s full name indicates that the initiative involves human participation in evaluating assisted screening, but the source does not provide further detail about that process.
No information was supplied about the project’s testing, expected users, geographical coverage, safeguards or clinical outcomes. The announcement establishes the participating institutions, the project’s focus and its scheduled launch date.
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