Title
Improving the accuracy of suicide attempter classification.
Abstract
Psychometrical questionnaires such as the Barrat's impulsiveness scale version 11 (BIS-11) have been used in the assessment of suicidal behavior. Traditionally, BIS-11 items have been considered as equally valuable but this might not be true. The main objective of this article is to test the discriminative ability of the BIS-11 and the international personality disorder evaluation screening questionnaire (IPDE-SQ) to predict suicide attempter (SA) status using different classification techniques. In addition, we examine the discriminative capacity of individual items from both scales.Two experiments aimed at evaluating the accuracy of different classification techniques were conducted. The answers of 879 individuals (345 SA, 384 healthy blood donors, and 150 psychiatric inpatients) to the BIS-11 and IPDE-SQ were used to compare the classification performance of two techniques that have successfully been applied in pattern recognition issues, Boosting and support vector machines (SVM) with respect to linear discriminant analysis, Fisher linear discriminant analysis, and the traditional psychometrical approach.The most discriminative BIS-11 and IPDE-SQ items are "I am self controlled" (Item 6) and "I often feel empty inside" (item 40), respectively. The SVM classification accuracy was 76.71% for the BIS-11 and 80.26% for the IPDE-SQ.The IPDE-SQ items have better discriminative abilities than the BIS-11 items for classifying SA. Moreover, IPDE-SQ is able to obtain better SA and non-SA classification results than the BIS-11. In addition, SVM outperformed the other classification techniques in both questionnaires.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.artmed.2011.05.004
Artificial Intelligence In Medicine
Keywords
Field
DocType
barratt’s impulsiveness scale,suicide prediction,classifying sa,better sa,ipde-sq item,classification technique,discriminative ability,suicide attempter classification,non-sa classification result,international personality disorder evaluation screening questionnaire,svm classification accuracy,classification performance,different classification technique,bis-11 item,support vector machines,boosting,support vector machine
Suicide prevention,Computer science,Support vector machine,Artificial intelligence,Boosting (machine learning),Linear discriminant analysis,Accident prevention,Discriminative model,Machine learning,Personality,Screening questionnaire
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
52
3
1873-2860
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.50
8
Authors
6