Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Diagnoses and Treatment Plans: A Protocol for Actors and Patients

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming prevalent in modern medicine and psychiatry. AI is based on a wide variety of computer algorithms classified under machine learning (ML). The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the potential for mental health diagnosis using AI. In the first part of the study, the AI will conduct an interview with standardized patients \[SP\] (actors) presenting a psychiatric illness. The AI will present a differential diagnosis and treatment plan. Immediately afterward, the actors will be interviewed by a board-certified psychiatrist, who will also give a differential diagnosis and a treatment plan. The results of the AI and psychiatrist will be compared. In the second part of the study, AI will examine patients coming for consultation by a psychiatrist in the inpatient units, outpatient units, or in the emergency room (ER) at Sheba Medical center. The AI results will be compered to the psychiatrist diagnosis.