Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Wearable Internet of Things for Mental Health Detection

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Wearable Internet of Things (WIoT) for mental health detection is a promising area of research with the potential to revolutionize mental health monitoring and diagnosis. Since early detection of mental diseases, i.e., depression, is of great importance for diagnosis and treatment, a fast and convenient way is urgently needed. Traditional diagnostic methods are time-consuming, laborious, over-subjective, and easily lead to misdiagnosis. The advance in information techniques and wearable devices brings innovation to mental disease detection. Therefore, this article first compares intelligent depression detection methods and traditional methods to illustrate the significance and then analyzes the opportunities of the wearable device. Then we provide specific psychophysiological data measured by wearable devices and introduce relevant datasets for depression detection. An illustrative example of depression detection with sleep data is presented and discussed and our proposed ensemble method has improved nearly 10% to baselines. Analytical results demonstrate the great potential of using wearable device-measured psychophysiological data to detect depression intelligently.