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 trauma in children. We present ShishuRaksha AI, a decision-support (not diagnostic) framework that fuses four screening modalities: validated questionnaires (SDQ, CPSS), Bengali narrative text, House-Tree-Person (HTP) drawing features, and facial affect. The fusion is training-free and clinically weighted, uses cross-m
The increasing availability of AI tools and growing awareness of mental health crises in developing nations, coupled with a severe shortage of human professionals, makes the development of AI-driven diagnostic support systems urgent.
This development represents a critical application of AI in addressing severe public health disparities, particularly in mental health care for vulnerable populations, and highlights the potential for AI to provide foundational services where human infrastructure is lacking.
The paradigm for mental health screening in resource-poor settings shifts from solely relying on scarce human professionals to incorporating AI-driven, multimodal decision-support systems that are culturally and linguistically adapted.
- · Developing nations' healthcare systems
- · Global mental health NGOs
- · AI-driven diagnostic tool developers
- · Children in underserved regions
- · Traditional diagnostic methods
Widespread deployment of AI-powered mental health screening tools in other low-income countries suffering from similar shortages.
Establishment of new AI regulatory frameworks focusing on ethical deployment, bias mitigation, and data privacy in sensitive medical contexts.
A global re-evaluation of medical education and training, with greater emphasis on AI and data science competencies for healthcare professionals.
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