Pune: INSIGHT - The Mind Clinic, Pune, has integrated
Emoscape™, Nihilent's medical-grade Emotion AI platform, into its clinical
practice to enhance the objectivity of detecting patients' emotional states and
enable more informed
and personalised patient care. Led by Dr.
Hamza Hussain, Founder of INSIGHT - The Mind Clinic and HOD, Mental Health at
Ruby Hospital, Pune, the initiative brings AI-based emotion assessment into the
clinic's existing psychiatric and psychological assessment processes.
An MD Psychiatry
Gold Medallist from Osmania Medical College, Dr. Hussain is a practising
psychiatrist with expertise spanning psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, addiction
psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry. Through this integration, INSIGHT aims to
combine clinical expertise with technology to develop a more comprehensive
understanding of patients' emotional patterns and track changes over the course
of care.
Dr. Hamza
Hussain, Founder, INSIGHT - The Mind Clinic and HOD, Mental Health, Ruby
Hospital, Pune, said, “Psychiatric and psychological assessments
give us important insights into a patient, but understanding emotions can still
depend significantly on what an individual is able to recognise and
communicate. Emoscape allows us to introduce greater objectivity into this
aspect of assessment. Having measurable insight into a patient's emotional
state can help us explore what may otherwise be difficult to articulate and
follow how that state changes during the course of care. It also helps us show
our patients a visual representation of their emotional state. For us at
INSIGHT, the value of this technology lies in how it can help us understand our
patients better, how our patients can understand themselves better and, in
turn, care for them better.”
Psychiatric and psychological assessments have
traditionally relied on clinical interviews, observation, questionnaires,
psychometric instruments and patient-reported information. These approaches
often depend on how patients understand and articulate their experiences, as
well as how practitioners interpret their responses. Differences in language,
comprehension and communication can influence the assessment of emotional
states.
Emoscape addresses this gap by enabling
objective detection of emotion states and traits through a simple,
non-invasive, one-minute webcam-based interaction. The platform analyses subtle
upper-body micro-movements, across the face, eye region, head and upper body to
generate a structured emotional profile.
At INSIGHT, these emotional profiles are
incorporated into psychiatric and psychological assessments, helping clinicians
identify and interpret emotional patterns within the context of the patient's
clinical history and overall mental health, enabling a more comprehensive
understanding of the individual.
The platform also enables periodic
reassessments, allowing the clinical team to observe changes in emotional
states throughout the patient's treatment journey. Patients can view a visual
representation of their emotional profile, helping them better understand their
emotional experiences and the changes observed over time.
Together, these capabilities create a structured
approach to patient care, connecting objective emotion assessment with clinical
interpretation, personalised intervention, periodic reassessment and
longitudinal progress tracking. Sandeep Pendurkar, Business Director, Nihilent
Limited, said, “Emoscape was built around the idea that emotions, despite
their importance to health and wellbeing, should not have to remain entirely
subjective. Having an experienced psychiatrist such as Dr. Hamza Hussain use
these insights in the context of actual patient care is an important step in
how Emoscape can become meaningful to both clinicians and the people they care
for.”
Founded by Dr.
Hamza Hussain, INSIGHT - The Mind Clinic is an integrated mental healthcare
clinic in Pune that works across age groups. It brings together psychiatric
care, psychological therapies and counselling, psychological and
neuropsychological assessments, lifestyle psychiatry and integrative approaches
to mental healthcare. Its philosophy is centred on understanding the individual
comprehensively and creating care pathways based on the patient's broader
psychological, emotional and behavioural needs.
This
collaboration brings objective Emotion AI into the day-to-day practice of an
established psychiatrist and mental healthcare clinic.
Under Dr. Hamza
Hussain's leadership, INSIGHT is applying the technology within a clinical
environment where the emotional profile can be understood in relation to the
person behind it, their history, circumstances, symptoms, behaviour and ongoing
treatment.
It reflects
INSIGHT's broader approach to mental healthcare: combining psychiatric
expertise with relevant advances in science and technology where they can
deepen the understanding of the patient and improve the quality of care.