Detecting Child Autism Using Classification Techniques

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019 Aug 21:264:1447-1448. doi: 10.3233/SHTI190477.

Abstract

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a brain development disorder that restricts a person's communication abilities and social interaction capabilities from natural growth. In this paper, we have applied various supervised classification techniques to detect the presence of child autism. Our findings show that the Sequential Minimal Optimization (SMO) classifier performs best to detect ASD cases with the highest accuracy and minimum execution time and error rate. We also identify the most dominant features in dectecting child autism.

Keywords: Autism Spectrum Disorder; Child; Supervised Machine Learning.

MeSH terms

  • Autistic Disorder*
  • Child
  • Humans
  • Interpersonal Relations