Artificial intelligence is starting to become extremely useful for many areas of everyday life, but now we also learn that it will be able to be used in the future to diagnose including mental health problems. Everything is part of a study that is now being carried out in the USA, based on magnetic resonance scans of the brains of healthy people or those suffering from mental illnesses, the results being analyzed by artificial intelligence systems.
A technological institute in Virginia, USA, is conducting this study, with the aim of developing software that will help to discover and analyze mental health problems more easily using artificial intelligence. As in every case where artificial intelligence is used for something, this time too it is necessary to train the systems with scans of healthy brains, and of those with mental health problems, so that it can distinguish them more easily.
Artificial intelligence will soon detect mental health problems
If this research is successful, then in the future, scans made for people's brains will be automatically analyzed by artificial intelligence, which will decide if there are possible mental health problems or not. Of course, a doctor will also have to intervene here, to physically confirm the existence, or even, of the problems, so things are not quite as simple as using an exclusive software without human verification, at least not for now.
My brain scan and the results of this MRI battery, if they were not a demo, would eventually be fed into a machine learning algorithm. A team of scientists and researchers would use it to potentially help discover how human beings respond to social situations. They want to compare healthy people's brains to those of people with mental health disorders. That information might help make correct diagnoses for mental health disorders and even find the underlying physical causes.
Artificial intelligence is starting to occupy an increasingly important role in people's lives, and this in the conditions where everyone wants things to be done automatically, possibly by guessing what they want. Artificial intelligence will be able to detect not only mental health problems in the future, but also many others, but it needs much more improvements, and much more training, before it is ready for such a role.
