Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Detection Using Machine Learning Algorithms

Abstract

Some diseases are characterized by persistent deficits in brain activity. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder. It appears in early childhood and evolves throughout life and needs to be detected early to accelerate the treatment and recovery process. These deficits may be detected using medical imaging techniques. In this paper, we present machine learning algorithms allowing to detect peoples with ASD from normal peoples. We used data from the ABIDE dataset. We tested 3 algorithms: Support Vector Machines (SVM), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The best result was obtained using CNN algorithm with an accuracy equal to 95%.