Visually multimodal depression assessment based on key questions with weighted multi-task learning

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Peng Wang, Miaomiao Cao, Xianlin Zhu, Suhong Wang, Rongrong Ni, Changchun Yang, Biao Yang

Published: 2025, Last Modified: 01 Apr 2026Signal Process. Image Commun. 2025EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Highlights•A deep learning-based depression detection method is proposed as an auxiliary diagnostic tool.•A core question subset is constructed to enhance the efficiency of depression assessment.•Hierarchical weighted attention fusion is proposed to fuse depression-aware features adaptively.•Weighted multi-task learning is used for depression assessment and PHQ-8 score prediction.