Discovery of Depression-Associated Factors From a Nationwide Population-Based Survey: Epidemiological Study Using Machine Learning and Network Analysis

Sang Min Nam   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD ;   Thomas A Peterson   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Kyoung Yul Seo   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Hyun Wook Han   ⁴ , MD, PhD ;   Jee In Kang   ⁵ , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Ophthalmology, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

² UCSF REACH Informatics Core, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

³ Department of Ophthalmology, Institute of Vision Research, Eye and Ear Hospital, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁴ Department of Biomedical Informatics, CHA University School of Medicine, CHA University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

⁵ Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Behavioral Science in Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

*these authors contributed equally