| Title: | Population modeling with machine learning can enhance measures of mental health |
| Journal: | GigaScience |
| Published: | 13 Oct 2021 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34651172/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giab071 |
| URL: | https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc8559220?pdf=render |
| Citations: | 34 (24 in last 2 years) as of 8 Aug 2024 |
Publication 5583
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Biological aging is revealed by physical measures, e.g., DNA probes or brain scans. In contrast, individual differences in mental function are explained by psychological constructs, e.g., intelligence or neuroticism. These constructs are typically assessed by tailored neuropsychological tests that build on expert judgement and require careful interpretation. Could machine learning on large samples from the general population be used to build proxy measures of these constructs that do not require human intervention?</p>
RESULTS: Here, we built proxy measures by applying machine learning on multimodal MR images and rich sociodemographic information from the largest biomedical cohort to date: the UK Biobank. Objective model comparisons revealed that all proxies captured the target constructs and were as useful, and sometimes more useful, than the original measures for characterizing real-world health behavior (sleep, exercise, tobacco, alcohol consumption). We observed this complementarity of proxy measures and original measures at capturing multiple health-related constructs when modeling from, both, brain signals and sociodemographic data.</p>
CONCLUSION: Population modeling with machine learning can derive measures of mental health from heterogeneous inputs including brain signals and questionnaire data. This may complement or even substitute for psychometric assessments in clinical populations.</p>
6 Keywords
- Aging
- Brain
- Humans
- Machine Learning
- Mental Health
- Neuroimaging
6 Authors
- Kamalaker Dadi
- Gaël Varoquaux
- Josselin Houenou
- Danilo Bzdok
- Bertrand Thirion
- Denis Engemann
Enabling scientific discoveries that improve human health