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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

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An Emotion-Driven Vocal Biomarker-Based PTSD Screening Tool.

Thomas F Quatieri^1,2, Jing Wang¹, James R Williamson¹

¹MIT Lincoln Laboratory (MIT LL) Lexington MA 02421 USA.

IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology

|August 26, 2024

Summary

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This study developed an automated tool for screening post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using speech emotion analysis. Emotion-rich speech segments significantly improved PTSD detection accuracy, aiding diagnosis.

Keywords:

Emotional digital twin PTSD emotion sensing neuromotor coordination vocal biomarkers

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Area of Science:

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Computational Linguistics
Signal Processing

Background:

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis can be challenging and time-consuming.
Objective screening tools are needed to aid clinicians in PTSD assessment.
Speech analysis offers a non-invasive method for evaluating emotional states relevant to PTSD.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce an automated speech-based screening tool for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
To investigate the utility of emotion estimation (arousal and valence) in identifying salient speech regions for PTSD detection.
To evaluate the tool's performance in aiding PTSD diagnosis and treatment planning.

Main Methods:

An emotion estimation algorithm was employed to quantify arousal and valence levels from speech.
Salient regions of the acoustic signal were selected based on emotion levels for PTSD detection.
The algorithm was tested on audio data from the DVBIC-TBICoE TBI Study, correlated with PTSD Check List Civilian (PCL-C) scores.

Main Results:

Speech segments characterized by low arousal and positive valence demonstrated the highest discriminative power for PTSD.
The emotion-filtered model achieved an Area Under the Curve (AUC) of 0.80 for detecting PCL-C ratings.
This performance significantly outperformed a model without emotion filtering (AUC = 0.68).

Conclusions:

Emotion plays a critical role in identifying the most informative parts of audio recordings for PTSD detection.
Automated speech analysis, particularly focusing on emotional content, shows promise for PTSD screening.
This tool could be integrated into self-assessments or routine medical visits to improve PTSD diagnosis.