Editorial: Artificial intelligence for mental disorder prevention and diagnosis: Technologies and challenges

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made an indelible contribution to the progress and development of human society, which has major applications in the fields of national defense, transportation, finance, logistics, education, etc. As a branch of computer science, AI has made significant breakthroughs in machine translation, intelligent control, language and image processing, automatic programming, and storage computing. Artificial intelligence-driven healthcare technologies are rapidly evolving into solutions that are applicable to clinical practice. AI has greatly helped improve health outcomes by using patient-relevant clinical data for early diagnosis of symptoms and better prognosis (Briganti and Le Moine, 2020). Therefore, there is reason to believe that AI can make greater contributions to the prevention and diagnosis of mental