The National Institutes of Health is funding a new University of Hawaii at Manoa project that aims to use artificial intelligence to diagnose mental health conditions and developmental delays, according to a news release.
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The National Institutes of Health gave assistant professor Peter Washington a $2.18 million New Innovator Award
The New Innovator Award will fund Washington’s lab, the Hawaii Digital Health Lab, for five years as he develops new AI techniques along with smartphone apps and websites
The AI technology will diagnose adolescent development delays, such as autism and ADHD, with the hope it will later be able to diagnose a wider range of psychiatric conditions
Washington’s project will create AI models that establish computational diagnoses of subjective, complex and social conditions in psychiatry using videos recorded while a group of people play video games
Assistant professor Peter Washington, with the information and computer sciences department, hopes his project will create tools to help people by making it easier to diagnose them
