Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare aims to learn patterns in large multimodal datasets within and across individuals. These patterns may either improve understanding of current clinical status or predict a future outcome. AI holds the potential to revolutionize geriatric mental health care and research by supporting diagnosis, treatment, and clinical decision-making. However, much of this momentum is driven by data and computer scientists and engineers and runs the risk of being disconnected from pragmatic issues in clinical practice. This interprofessional perspective bridges the experiences of clinical scientists and data science. We provide a brief overview of AI with the main focus on possible applications and challenges of using AI-based approaches for research and clinical care in geriatric mental health. We suggest future AI applications in geriatric mental health consider pragmatic considerations of clinical practice, methodological differences between data and clinical science, and address issues of ethics, privacy, and trust.
Highlights
Artificial intelligence (AI) learns patterns in large multimodal datasets both within and across individuals [1] to help improve understanding of current clinical status [e.g., calculating a risk score for heart disease [2]] or predict a future outcome [e.g., predicting daily mood fluctuations [3]]
We provide a brief overview of AI in mental health with the main focus on possible applications and challenges of using AI-based approaches for research and clinical care in geriatric mental health
We briefly review three clinical domains relevant to geriatric mental health care below and subsequently suggest specific areas where AI can assist clinical care
Summary
Artificial intelligence (AI) learns patterns in large multimodal datasets both within and across individuals [1] to help improve understanding of current clinical status [e.g., calculating a risk score for heart disease [2]] or predict a future outcome [e.g., predicting daily mood fluctuations [3]]. AI holds the potential to revolutionize geriatric mental health care and research by learning and applying such individualized predictions to guide clinical decision-making. AI can contribute to the proactive and objective assessment of mental health symptoms to aid in diagnosis and treatment delivery to suit individual needs, including long-term monitoring and care management.
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