Multimodal behavioral phenotyping for depressive-spectrum classification and severity estimation using eye tracking, facial behavior, and transcript-derived lan... (opens in new tab)

IntroductionDepression assessment remains largely dependent on symptom reports and clinician judgment, while objective tools for depressive-spectrum stratification and severity estimation remain limited. Existing digital and multimodal depression-detection studies often focus on binary case-control classification, handle missing modalities incompletely, provide limited calibration assessment, and rarely combine depressive-spectrum classification with continuous symptom-severity estimation. We...