AI RESEARCH
Depression Detection at the Point of Care: Automated Analysis of Linguistic Signals from Routine Primary Care Encounters
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2604.06193v1 Announce Type: new Depression is underdiagnosed in primary care, yet timely identification remains critical. Recorded clinical encounters, increasingly common with digital scribing technologies, present an opportunity to detect depression from naturalistic dialogue. We investigated automated depression detection from 1,108 audio-recorded primary care encounters in the Establishing Focus study, with depression defined by PHQ-9 (n=253 depressed, n=855 non-depressed