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AI framework screens child trauma in Bangladesh using multimodal data

Researchers have developed ShishuRaksha AI, a novel decision-support framework designed to screen for abuse-related psychological trauma in children in Bangladesh. The system is unique in its training-free, multimodal approach, integrating validated questionnaires, Bengali narrative text, drawing features from the House-Tree-Person test, and facial affect analysis. Due to ethical constraints on collecting clinical data, the framework was evaluated on a noise-aware synthetic benchmark, achieving an AUC of 0.874, significantly outperforming a baseline using only questionnaires. AI

IMPACT This research offers a potential ethical solution for child protection screening in low-resource settings, addressing critical mental health professional shortages.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a novel AI framework and its evaluation on a synthetic dataset. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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AI framework screens child trauma in Bangladesh using multimodal data

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Salma Hoque Talukdar Koli, Fahima Haque Talukder Jely ·

    Explainable AI for Screening Abuse-Related Trauma in Bangladeshi Children: A Training-Free Multimodal Framework Evaluated on Noise-Aware Synthetic Data

    arXiv:2607.04010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bangladesh has an estimated 1.17 mental-health professionals per 100,000 population and only six child psychiatrists nationwide. No Bengali-language, culturally adapted tool exists for early screening of abuse-related psychological …