scholarly journals Autism spectrum disorder classification on electroencephalogram signal using deep learning algorithm

Author(s):  
Nur Alisa Ali

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental that impact the social interaction and communication skills. Diagnosis of ASD is one of the difficult problems facing researchers. This research work aimed to reveal the different pattern between autistic and normal children via electroencephalogram (EEG) by using the deep learning algorithm. The brain signal database used pattern recognition where the extracted features will undergo the multilayer perceptron network for the classification process. The promising method to perform the classification is through a deep learning algorithm, which is currently a well-known and superior method in the pattern recognition field. The performance measure for the classification would be the accuracy. The higher percentage means the more effectiveness for the ASD diagnosis. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman+FPEF'; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">This can be seen as the ground work for applying a new algorithm for further development diagnosis of autism to see how the treatment is working as well in future.</span>

Author(s):  
Abdulrazak Yahya Saleh ◽  
Lim Huey Chern

<p class="0abstract">The goal of this paper is to evaluate the deep learning algorithm for people placed in the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) classification. ASD is a developmental disability that causes the affected people to have significant communication, social, and behavioural challenges. People with autism are saddled with communication problems, difficulties in social interaction and displaying repetitive behaviours. Several methods have been used to classify the ASD from non-ASD people. However, there is a need to explore more algorithms that can yield better classification performance. Recently, deep learning methods have significantly sharpened the cutting edge of learning algorithms in a wide range of artificial intelligence tasks. These artificial intelligence tasks refer to object detection, speech recognition, and machine translation. In this research, the convolutional neural network (CNN) is employed. This algorithm is used to find processes that can classify ASD with a higher level of accuracy. The image data is pre-processed; the CNN algorithm is then applied to classify the ASD and non-ASD, and the steps of implementing the CNN algorithm are clearly stated. Finally, the effectiveness of the algorithm is evaluated based on the accuracy performance. The support vector machine (SVM) is utilised for the purpose of comparison. The CNN algorithm produces better results with an accuracy of 97.07%, compared with the SVM algorithm. In the future, different types of deep learning algorithms need to be applied, and different datasets can be tested with different hyper-parameters to produce more accurate ASD classifications.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. A. Ali ◽  
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A. R Syafeeza ◽  
A. S. Jaafar ◽  
S. Shamsuddin ◽  
...  

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is categorized as a neurodevelopmental disability. Having an automated technology system to classify the ASD trait would have a huge influence on paediatricians, which can aid them in diagnosing ASD in children using a quantifiable method. A novel autism diagnosis method based on a bidirectional long-short-term-memory (LSTM) network's deep learning algorithm is proposed. This multi-layered architecture merges two LSTM blocks with the other direction of propagation to classify the output state on the brain signal data from an electroencephalogram (EEG) on individuals; normal and autism obtained from the Simon Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) database. The accuracy of 99.6% obtained for 90:10 train:test data distribution, while the accuracy of 97.3% was achieved for 70:30 distribution. The result shows that the proposed approach had better autism classification with upgraded efficiency compared to single LSTM network method and potentially giving a significant contribution in neuroscience research.


2018 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 16-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anibal Sólon Heinsfeld ◽  
Alexandre Rosa Franco ◽  
R. Cameron Craddock ◽  
Augusto Buchweitz ◽  
Felipe Meneguzzi

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haishuai Wang ◽  
Paul Avillach

BACKGROUND In the United States, about 3 million people have autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and around 1 out of 59 children are diagnosed with ASD. People with ASD have characteristic social communication deficits and repetitive behaviors. The causes of this disorder remain unknown; however, in up to 25% of cases, a genetic cause can be identified. Detecting ASD as early as possible is desirable because early detection of ASD enables timely interventions in children with ASD. Identification of ASD based on objective pathogenic mutation screening is the major first step toward early intervention and effective treatment of affected children. OBJECTIVE Recent investigation interrogated genomics data for detecting and treating autism disorders, in addition to the conventional clinical interview as a diagnostic test. Since deep neural networks perform better than shallow machine learning models on complex and high-dimensional data, in this study, we sought to apply deep learning to genetic data obtained across thousands of simplex families at risk for ASD to identify contributory mutations and to create an advanced diagnostic classifier for autism screening. METHODS After preprocessing the genomics data from the Simons Simplex Collection, we extracted top ranking common variants that may be protective or pathogenic for autism based on a chi-square test. A convolutional neural network–based diagnostic classifier was then designed using the identified significant common variants to predict autism. The performance was then compared with shallow machine learning–based classifiers and randomly selected common variants. RESULTS The selected contributory common variants were significantly enriched in chromosome X while chromosome Y was also discriminatory in determining the identification of autistic from nonautistic individuals. The ARSD, MAGEB16, and MXRA5 genes had the largest effect in the contributory variants. Thus, screening algorithms were adapted to include these common variants. The deep learning model yielded an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.955 and an accuracy of 88% for identifying autistic from nonautistic individuals. Our classifier demonstrated a significant improvement over standard autism screening tools by average 13% in terms of classification accuracy. CONCLUSIONS Common variants are informative for autism identification. Our findings also suggest that the deep learning process is a reliable method for distinguishing the diseased group from the control group based on the common variants of autism.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (23) ◽  
pp. 6762
Author(s):  
Jung Hyuk Lee ◽  
Geon Woo Lee ◽  
Guiyoung Bong ◽  
Hee Jeong Yoo ◽  
Hong Kook Kim

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder with a life-span disability. While diagnostic instruments have been developed and qualified based on the accuracy of the discrimination of children with ASD from typical development (TD) children, the stability of such procedures can be disrupted by limitations pertaining to time expenses and the subjectivity of clinicians. Consequently, automated diagnostic methods have been developed for acquiring objective measures of autism, and in various fields of research, vocal characteristics have not only been reported as distinctive characteristics by clinicians, but have also shown promising performance in several studies utilizing deep learning models based on the automated discrimination of children with ASD from children with TD. However, difficulties still exist in terms of the characteristics of the data, the complexity of the analysis, and the lack of arranged data caused by the low accessibility for diagnosis and the need to secure anonymity. In order to address these issues, we introduce a pre-trained feature extraction auto-encoder model and a joint optimization scheme, which can achieve robustness for widely distributed and unrefined data using a deep-learning-based method for the detection of autism that utilizes various models. By adopting this auto-encoder-based feature extraction and joint optimization in the extended version of the Geneva minimalistic acoustic parameter set (eGeMAPS) speech feature data set, we acquire improved performance in the detection of ASD in infants compared to the raw data set.


2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. e25-e25
Author(s):  
Sarah MacEachern ◽  
Deepthi Rajashekar ◽  
Pauline Mouches ◽  
Nathan Rowe ◽  
Emily Mckenna ◽  
...  

Abstract Introduction/Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder resulting in challenges with social communication, sensory differences, and repetitive and restricted patterns of behavior. ASD affects approximately 1 in 66 children in North America, with boys being affected four times more frequently than girls. Currently, diagnosis is made primarily based on clinical features and no robust biomarker for ASD diagnosis has been identified. Potential image-based biomarkers to aid ASD diagnosis may include structural properties of deep gray matter regions in the brain. Objectives The primary objective of this work was to investigate if children with ASD show micro- and macrostructural alterations in deep gray matter structures compared to neurotypical children, and if these biomarkers can be used for an automatic ASD classification using deep learning. Design/Methods Quantitative apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) magnetic resonance imaging data was obtained from 23 boys with ASD ages 0.8 – 19.6 years (mean 7.6 years) and 39 neurotypical boys ages 0.3 – 17.75 years (mean 7.6 years). An atlas-based method was used for volumetric analysis and extraction of median ADC values for each subject within the cerebral cortex, hippocampus, thalamus, caudate, putamen, globus pallidus, amygdala, and nucleus accumbens. The extracted quantitative regional volumetric and median ADC values were then used for the development and evaluation of an automatic classification method using an artificial neural network. Results The classification model was evaluated using 10-fold cross validation resulting in an overall accuracy of 76%, which is considerably better than chance level (62%). Specifically, 33 neurotypical boys were correctly classified, whereas 6 neurotypical boys were incorrectly classified. For the ASD group, 14 boys were correctly classified, while 9 boys were incorrectly classified. This translates to a precision of 70% for the children with ASD and 79% for neurotypical boys. Conclusion To the best of our knowledge, this is the first method to classify children with ASD using micro- and macrostructural properties of deep gray matter structures in the brain. The first results of the proposed deep learning method to identify children with ASD using image-based biomarkers are promising and could serve as the platform to create a more accurate and robust deep learning model for clinical application.


10.2196/27706 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federica Cilia ◽  
Romuald Carette ◽  
Mahmoud Elbattah ◽  
Gilles Dequen ◽  
Jean-Luc Guérin ◽  
...  

Epigenomics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farah R Zahir

In this interview, Dr Farah R Zahir speaks with Storm Johnson, Commissioning Editor for Epigenomics, on her work to date in the field of epigenomics, autism and intellectual disability. Dr Farah R Zahir specializes in the identification of novel genetic and epigenetic causes for neurodevelopmental diseases. Her PhD, awarded in 2011 by the University of British Columbia (UBC), resulted in the characterization of new intellectual disability (ID) syndromes, as well as discovery of several new causative genes for the disorder. She was awarded the prestigious James Miller Memorial Prize for integrating basic and clinical science in 2010. Her PhD dissertation was nominated for the Governor General’s gold medal – the highest possible accolade at UBC for doctoral research work. She then completed a postdoctoral tenure in Canada’s premier Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, where she used whole-genome-sequencing methods to comprehensively assess genetic, molecular and structural causes for ID, employing several firsts for bioinformatic data mining in the field. During her postdoctorate she won three distinguished awards and was a fellow of the Canadian Institute of Health Research, ranking in the top 2% nationally. Dr Zahir was appointed an Assistant Professor at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University in 2016, where she led a group focused on neurogenomics and neuroepigenomics research. She was a founding member of the Precision and Genomics Medicine graduate program there. Currently she has rejoined UBC's department of Medical Genetics. Among her most significant achievements is the establishment of the novel Zahir Friedman syndrome, an intellectual disability/autism spectrum disorder syndrome that is caused by a major epigenomic regulator. Her current primary research interest is how epigenomics can be changed by environmental impacts and how these effects may be harnessed for neurodevelopmental disorders' prophylaxis and therapeutics.


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