
Publications
Microsoft Research Blog
Microsoft Research Blog
Overview
One in four of us, at some point in our lives, will be affected by a mental health condition. Good mental health and well-being are fundamental to our general health and quality of life. It enables us to build resilience against everyday stresses, to work productively, to have fulfilling relationships, and to experience life as meaningful. Mental health presents one of the most challenging and under-investigated domains of machine learning research. In Project Talia we are exploring how we can best leverage AI to help improve the effectiveness of important mental health services.
Collaboration with SilverCloud Health
In this project, we are collaborating with SilverCloud Health, the leading digital therapeutics platform for mental and behavioral health. This partnership aims to jointly explore how AI can be used to enhance SilverCloud Health’s digital mental health services that deliver cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) programs to a large and growing number of people in need of effective care. Using probabilistic machine learning frameworks, the aim is to identify new routes for personalizing treatments and improving patient engagement and clinical outcomes.
More Effective Digital Mental Healthcare with AI
For improving mental health through AI, our research focuses on the following strategies:
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Stratify Understand patient sub-types which respond best to treatment + interventions |
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Personalize Tailor content and delivery to achieve optimal therapy outcomes for individual patients |
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Predict Identify which patients are more likely to drop-out for earlier intervention, or different programs |
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Intervene Intervene timely to ensure earlier intervention and improved outcomes |
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Improve Identify successful patterns in supporter behaviour in relation to patient sub-type to improve therapy effectiveness |
Recent Events
- 08/2020 – ToCHI paper: Machine Learning in Mental Health: A Systematic Review of the HCI Literature to Support Effective ML System Design
- 07/2020 – JAMA Network Open paper: A Machine Learning Approach to Understanding Patterns of Engagement With Internet-Delivered Mental Health Interventions
- 07/2020 – Microsoft Research Blog: A path to personalization: Using ML to subtype patients receiving digital mental health interventions
- 04/2020 – CHI 2020 paper: Understanding Client Support Strategies to Improve Clinical Outcomes in an Online Mental Health Intervention
- 03/2020 – Microsoft Research Blog: Data-driven insights for more effective, personalized care in online mental health interventions
- 10/2019 – Collaboration with SilverCloud Health announced at Microsoft Future Decoded
- 10/2019 – Microsoft Research Blog: Microsoft collaborates with SilverCloud Health to develop AI for improved mental health
- 09/2019 – ACII 2019 workshop: Machine Learning for Affective Disorders (ML4AD)
People
Mircosoft Research
Silvercloud Collaborators
James Bligh
CTO SilverCloud
Gavin Doherty
UX Director
Angel Enrique
Clinical Researcher
Dessie Keegan
Software Developer Engineer
Jorge Palacios
Clinical Researcher
Derek Richards
Chief Science Officer