Automated Detection of Autism Spectrum Disorder Using a Convolutional Neural Network

Autor: Zeinab Sherkatghanad, Mohammadsadegh Akhondzadeh, Soorena Salari, Mariam Zomorodi-Moghadam, Moloud Abdar, U. Rajendra Acharya, Reza Khosrowabadi, Vahid Salari
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Neuroscience, Vol 13 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1662-453X
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2019.01325
Popis: Background: Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have enabled significant progress in speech recognition, image classification, automotive software engineering, and neuroscience. This impressive progress is largely due to a combination of algorithmic breakthroughs, computation resource improvements, and access to a large amount of data.Method: In this paper, we focus on the automated detection of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) using CNN with a brain imaging dataset. We detected ASD patients using most common resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from a multi-site dataset named the Autism Brain Imaging Exchange (ABIDE). The proposed approach was able to classify ASD and control subjects based on the patterns of functional connectivity.Results: Our experimental outcomes indicate that the proposed model is able to detect ASD correctly with an accuracy of 70.22% using the ABIDE I dataset and the CC400 functional parcellation atlas of the brain. Also, the CNN model developed used fewer parameters than the state-of-art techniques and is hence computationally less intensive. Our developed model is ready to be tested with more data and can be used to prescreen ASD patients.
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