Talk by Prof. Dr. Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

On February 16, 2023, Dr. Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA, delivered a talk to the MULTICAT team at the University of Zurich. Prof. Dr. Galatzer-Levy focused his presentation, titled "Autoencoders and Decoders: How they work and their relevance to mental health" on the exploration and application of machine learning approaches to empirical data such as computer vision, audio, and voice datasets in medical contexts. His talk drew on recent data-driven studies, foregrounding the development of predictive models. During a lively discussion following the talk and considering the team`s specific projects within MULTICAST, questions were posed as to the features and machine learning techniques that can be used in the context of suicide prediction.