How to recognize depression at the photo in instagram

Specialists of Vermont and Harvard universities have developed an algorithm that is able to recognize the depression at the photo in instagram.

In the study, researchers have looked about 44 thousand images 170 people, 70 of whom suffer from clinical depression, and have analyzed their accounts on the level of activity, number of likes, the number of persons in the photos and color characteristics of images.





These data were used to create a program that is able to determine the level of depression from a particular user.

As it turned out, depressed people tend to put pictures with low contrast, which is dominated by blue, gray and black shades.

Under their pictures was a lot less likes and comments than in healthy people, and one of the most popular photo filters, which are used by people with depression, became Inkwell, converting color images to black and white.

After the learning stage, the authors tested the ability of the algorithm to distinguish depressive from healthy users: the program gave the correct result in 70% of cases.







 

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For example, practitioners were able to identify depression in patients, only 42% of cases. This uncomplicated program can be used for the early detection of mental disorders.published

 

 



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