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World Service,3 mins

Can A Computer Recognise Depression?

Newsday

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Facial-recognition technologies have been used in surveillance and security, now they're been used for medical purposes. Professor Louis-Philippe Morency of Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and his team have come up with a system called MultiSense which aims to help in the treatment of depression. (Photo: 14th April 1960: A man pulls a face like a little boy trying not to cry. Credit: Chaloner Woods/Getty Images)

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