Although it may seem like a lie or science fiction, the MoodCapture app is capable of detecting diseases through photographs of your eyes. This is a process scientifically proven which is already being used in the field of medicine and in the detection of diseases such as autism in minors. Let's see how MoodCapture works, the application that will help you know your mood.
How MoodCapture works
MoodCapture is an application that uses artificial intelligence combined with facial recognition to detect possible signs of depression. To reach the conclusion whether you suffer from this disease or not, the app takes photographs of your face, taken with the mobile's front camera.
These photographs are taken randomly when we unlock the mobile screen or when we are carrying out other activities with the mobile in our hand. Furthermore, it not only takes your face into account when determining if you suffer from depression, but It also takes data from your activity with your mobile. In this way, the detection of this type of disease reaches truly high levels for an app in development.
It is important to know that, at the moment, The diagnosis offered by this app is not definitive and to have a real diagnosis we must go to a professional. But if you want to try this app in the future, since right now it is not available due to being in development, I leave you a link so you can you can go to the official MoodFirst.AI website and inform you better directly from their website.
High success rate detecting depression
To demonstrate the capabilities of your app, its developers They have carried out experiments and documented them scientifically. Specifically, during the scientific analysis They collected more than 125.000 photos from a total of 177 participants diagnosed with major depressive disorder.
Images were captured naturally while the participants answered the questions on the questionnaire that they had them fill out. The analysis explored attributes that they consider important in the images, such as angles, dominant colors or the location where the image was taken.
Once the results were in hand, the study demonstrated, with a success close to 75%, that the app is effective in detecting depression using AI, which can classify the samples of the participants in the experiment as depressed or not depressed.
It is an app that surprises us now that it is in development, when time passes, who knows to what extent artificial intelligence will be able to detect diseases.
Why can't I find MoodCapture in the Google Play Store
Many of us trust the apps we find in the Google Play Store and we distrust the apps that do not appear in this catalog. When I searched for this app in the Google apps repository, I couldn't find it..
In reality what happens is that the app is still in development and that's why we can't download it. Furthermore, the fact that an app does not appear in the Google Store does not imply that this app is negative or harmful to users.
What may happen to MoodCapture in the future is that, as It is an effective medical app in the recognition of mental illnesses, will have to pass greater security controls than other apps.
Medical apps have to pass higher requirements for Google
Mental health is a very important topic for Google and therefore they are very restrictive with the apps that claim to control, diagnose or treat these types of diseases. The requirements for a medical app on Google are very high, for example, if the app claims to diagnose or treat a disease, it must present scientific evidence to support your hypotheses.
And on the other hand we have that it is an app that takes photographs of our face so would have to pass strong privacy and security regulations. As well as guaranteeing the transparency of these processes.
Right now the images taken by the app are processed on external servers where the user would lose control of their data. This can be dangerous as that database can be attacked. For this very reason, The developers of the app are working so that your own mobile phone processes the images without the need for an external server.
MoodCapture is working so that your mobile phone processes photographs
Currently MoodCapture would capture photos and send them to an external server for analysis, This raises questions about the privacy of user data. In addition, this requires an internet connection to be able to effectively use the app and to be able to discover if we have depression.
To improve their application, the MoodCapture team is working to give their app the ability to process photos directly on the device and not through an external server. This would make the app more transparent and secure in terms of privacy and data security and on the other hand we would not have to depend on an internet connection to use it.
Now, the fact that the app processes these images on your own mobile phone can cause the app to be limited to mobile phones with a minimum of specifications. The use of artificial intelligence consumes a large amount of resources and many mobile phones on the market do not have the technical capabilities for it. If the photos were finally processed from the terminal itself, The application would have requirements that would make it exclusive for mid-high range or higher mobile phones.
Moment You can access all this information from its official website. If this function is added in the future, they will notify you so you can take advantage of it. But do you consider this application safe enough to try it when it is launched or do you prefer to wait to have the control of your photographs?
