Depression detection from social network data using machine learning techniques.

Purpose: Social networks have been developed as a great point for its users to communicate with their interested friends and share their opinions, photos, and videos reflecting their moods, feelings and sentiments. This creates an opportunity to analyze social network data for user's feelings and sentiments to investigate their moods and attitudes when they are communicating via these online tools.

Methods: Although diagnosis of depression using social networks data has picked an established position globally, there are several dimensions that are yet to be detected.