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  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence

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  • Traditional depression diagnosis relies on subjective methods, limiting accuracy.
  • Existing multimodal fusion techniques struggle with inflexible weighting and feature redundancy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an automated depression recognition system using multimodal data fusion.
  • To overcome limitations of current fusion methods by optimizing modality weighting and cross-modal interactions.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed a Mutual Information Maximization-based Weighted Multimodal Fusion Network (MI-WNet).
  • Synergistically analyzed electroencephalography (EEG), functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), and clinical scale data.
  • Utilized mutual information maximization for automated modality weighting and feature filtering.

Main Results:

  • Achieved a high depression recognition accuracy of 95.52% ± 0.42%.
  • Demonstrated significant performance improvement over single-modality baseline models.
  • Highlighted the superiority of adaptive fusion over fixed weighting schemes.

Conclusions:

  • MI-WNet offers a robust solution for automated depression recognition.
  • Enhanced diagnostic accuracy by addressing limitations in multimodal fusion.
  • Paves the way for objective, data-driven clinical decision support tools.