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Machine learning and big data in psychiatry: toward clinical applications

Rutledge, RB; Chekroud, AM; Huys, QJ; (2019) Machine learning and big data in psychiatry: toward clinical applications. Current Opinion in Neurobiology , 55 pp. 152-159. 10.1016/j.conb.2019.02.006. Green open access

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Abstract

Psychiatry is a medical field concerned with the treatment of mental illness. Psychiatric disorders broadly relate to higher functions of the brain, and as such are richly intertwined with social, cultural, and experiential factors. This makes them exquisitely complex phenomena that depend on and interact with a large number of variables. Computational psychiatry provides two ways of approaching this complexity. Theory-driven computational approaches employ mechanistic models to make explicit hypotheses at multiple levels of analysis. Data-driven machine-learning approaches can make predictions from high-dimensional data and are generally agnostic as to the underlying mechanisms. Here, we review recent advances in the use of big data and machine-learning approaches toward the aim of alleviating the suffering that arises from psychiatric disorders.

Type: Article
Title: Machine learning and big data in psychiatry: toward clinical applications
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2019.02.006
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2019.02.006
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Imaging Neuroscience
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10074168
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