A Reproducible Model Based on Clinical Text for Predicting Suicidal Behavior

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2024 Jan 25:310:1486-1487. doi: 10.3233/SHTI231257.

Abstract

Suicide risk models are critical for prioritizing patients for intervention. We demonstrate a reproducible approach for training text classifiers to identify patients at risk. The models were effective in phenotyping suicidal behavior (F1=.94) and moderately effective in predicting future events (F1=.63).

Keywords: Suicidal behavior; machine learning; reproducibility; text classification.

MeSH terms

  • Forecasting
  • Humans
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Suicidal Ideation*