A computational system for diagnosis of depressive situations

摘要

The purpose of this article is to describe a computational system for automated diagnosis of depression. It has a user interface, which allows non-specialists in mathematics and computer science to obtain automatically a fast diagnosis of the illness by simply pointing at keys in the computer screens. It can be used by family doctors to obtain a tentative diagnosis before sending the patient to a specialist. It can also be useful to specialists who want to compare their own diagnoses with those given by the computer.