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Received: 16 July 2024

Accepted: 11 February 2025

First Online: 24 February 2025

Declarations

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: The authors declare no competing interests.

: All of our experimental methods, and all procedures performed in studies involving human participants conform to the ethical standards of Xiamen University of Technology, and to the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its subsequent amendments or similar ethical standards. All of our experimental protocols meet the requirements for use of the datasets and have been approved for use in scientific research by the USC Institute for Creative Technology.

: All experiments reported in this paper were conducted on the publicly available DAIC-WOZ and Extended DAIC datasets, which were collected by the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California. According to the original papers, the DAIC-WOZ and Extended DAIC datasets received approval from the institutional review board (IRB). All participants, including United States veterans and members of the general public from the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, were informed that their interviews would be used for academic purposes. All personal information, such as names, ages, and occupations, was removed or anonymized to eliminate the risk of personal information exposure.

: This study was retrospective and all participants data were anonymised prior to use. Informed consent was obtained from all participants the time the dataset was created to use their data in scientific research.