Plausibility of a Neural Network Classifier-Based Neuroprosthesis for Depression Detection via Laughter Records.
Publicado en:Frontiers In Neuroscience. 13 267- - 2019-01-01 13(), DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00267
Autores: Navarro J; Fernández Rosell M; Castellanos A; Del Moral R; Lahoz-Beltra R; Marijuán PC
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The present work explores the diagnostic performance for depression of neural network classifiers analyzing the sound structures of laughter as registered from clinical patients and healthy controls. The main methodological novelty of this work is that simple sound variables of laughter are used as inputs, instead of electrophysiological signals or local field potentials (LFPs) or spoken language utterances, which are the usual protocols up-to-date. In the present study, involving 934 laughs from 30 patients and 20 controls, four different neural networks models were tested for sensitivity analysis, and were additionally trained for depression detection. Some elementary sound variables were extracted from the records: timing, fundamental frequency mean, first three formants, average power, and the Shannon-Wiener entropy. In the results obtained, two of the neural networks show a diagnostic discrimination capability of 93.02 and 91.15% respectively, while the third and fourth ones have an 87.96 and 82.40% percentage of success. Remarkably, entropy turns out to be a fundamental variable to distinguish between patients and controls, and this is a significant factor which becomes essential to understand the deep neurocognitive relationships between laughter and depression. In biomedical terms, our neural network classifier-based neuroprosthesis opens up the possibility of applying the same methodology to other mental-health and neuropsychiatric pathologies. Indeed, exploring the application of laughter in the early detection and prognosis of Alzheimer and Parkinson would represent an enticing possibility, both from the biomedical and the computational points of view.
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El trabajo ha sido publicado en la revista Frontiers In Neuroscience debido a la progresión y el buen impacto que ha alcanzado en los últimos años, según la agencia Scopus (SJR), se ha convertido en una referencia en su campo. En el año de publicación del trabajo, 2019, se encontraba en la posición , consiguiendo con ello situarse como revista Q1 (Primer Cuartil), en la categoría Neuroscience (Miscellaneous).
Desde una perspectiva relativa, y atendiendo al indicador del impacto normalizado calculado a partir del Field Citation Ratio (FCR) de la fuente Dimensions, arroja un valor de: 1.74, lo que indica que, de manera comparada con trabajos en la misma disciplina y en el mismo año de publicación, lo ubica como trabajo citado por encima de la media. (fuente consultada: Dimensions Jul 2025)
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