A Medical AI Agent as a Tool for Neuropsychiatric Diagnoses

A Medical AI agent perceives its environment with sensors and aids diagnoses, communicating results to the physician and providing feedback to the patient. The agent augments existing clinician interaction by learning the evolving status of the patient over time. With limited contact between patients and physicians due to the onset of Covid-19, there is an increased need for telemedicine and the use of medical AI agents. A neuropsychiatric diagnostic system utilizing a medical AI agent is proposed to capture physiological perturbations and patient responses in order to diagnose and track patients with psychiatric disorders like PTSD. Sensors are used to capture vital physiological parameters such as skin conductance, pulse rate, and blood oxygenation. These could be augmented with cameras and microphones that are used to record patient responses such as speech perturbations, oral responses, facial expressions, eye and pupil changes, and body movements to medical questions and stimuli.