Objective: To assess the reliability and validity of expert diagnosis system 4.0 Vision(Psychological"Computerized Tomography", PCT V4.0) for mental disorder. Methods: Authors evaluated the reliability and validity of PCT V4.0 in diagnosing mental disorder and the other functional disorders with the Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual(DSM)-IV-TR-Patient version(SCID-P) and International Classification of Diseases 10(ICD-10) as well as Chinese Classification and Diagnostic Criteria of Mental Disorders-3(CCMD-3) as"gold standard". There were 835 cases of patients from brain hospital of Hunan province and Mental health center of Xiangtan city checked by two psychiatrists with SCID-P and CCMD-3 first, then detected by two psychological test staffs with PCT V4.0, after 3-5days detected them again. We compared with the reliability and validity between the cases diagnosed with PCT V4.0 and the consistency cases diagnosed by two doctors. The reliability was indicated with Kappa value. Results: The kappa value of inter-rater and test-retest were 0.93~1.00(P<0.01) and 0.87~1.00(P<0.01), The diagnostic results were stable. Comparing with SCID-P in diagnosing depression and schizophrenia and the other 11 types of mental disorder, the sensitivity of PCT V4.0 was 82.9%~97.0%, the specificity was 96.8%~99.5%, Youden's index of diagnosis was 81.3%~93.8%, average Youden' s index was 87.38%. Contrasting with CCMD-3 in diagnosing of neurasthenia and tension headaches as well as the other 7 kinds of neuropsychological disorder, the sensitivity of PCT V4.0 was 88.0%~96.9%,the specificity was 95.3%~99.5%, Youden's index of diagnosis was 87.3%~92.6%. The mean positive predictive value of PCT V4.0 was 85.5%(76.3%~ 95.7%) and the negative predictive value was greater than 95% for all 21 diagnoses. The results above indicated the diagnosis consistency was very high between PCT V4.0 and"gold standard". Conclusion: There was higher reliability and validity of PCT V4.0 in diagnosing mental disorders, having reached the clinical needs, which could be act as a screening tool or an auxiliary diagnostic tool for mental disorders, worthy of popularizing in clinical use.
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