Taher M. Ghazal^1,2, Sundus Munir^3,4, Sagheer Abbas³, Atifa Athar⁵, Hamza Alrababah¹, Muhammad Adnan Khan^6,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.1, pp. 11-22, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.030125

Abstract Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a challenging and complex neuro-development syndrome that affects the child’s language, speech, social skills, communication skills, and logical thinking ability. The early detection of ASD is essential for delivering effective, timely interventions. Various facial features such as a lack of eye contact, showing uncommon hand or body movements, babbling or talking in an unusual tone, and not using common gestures could be used to detect and classify ASD at an early stage. Our study aimed to develop a deep transfer learning model to facilitate the early detection of ASD based on facial features. A dataset… More >

S. Rama Sree¹, Inderjeet Kaur², Alexey Tikhonov³, E. Laxmi Lydia⁴, Ahmed A. Thabit⁵, Zahraa H. Kareem⁶, Yousif Kerrar Yousif⁷, Ahmed Alkhayyat^8,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 2195-2209, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032586

Abstract Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is regarded as a neurological disorder well-defined by a specific set of problems associated with social skills, recurrent conduct, and communication. Identifying ASD as soon as possible is favourable due to prior identification of ASD permits prompt interferences in children with ASD. Recognition of ASD related to objective pathogenic mutation screening is the initial step against prior intervention and efficient treatment of children who were affected. Nowadays, healthcare and machine learning (ML) industries are combined for determining the existence of various diseases. This article devises a Jellyfish Search Optimization with Deep Learning Driven ASD Detection and… More >

G. Anurekha^*, P. Geetha

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.3, pp. 3049-3064, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.029127

Abstract Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complicated neurodevelopmental disorder that is often identified in toddlers. The microarray data is used as a diagnostic tool to identify the genetics of the disorder. However, microarray data is large and has a high volume. Consequently, it suffers from the problem of dimensionality. In microarray data, the sample size and variance of the gene expression will lead to overfitting and misclassification. Identifying the autism gene (feature) subset from microarray data is an important and challenging research area. It has to be efficiently addressed to improve gene feature selection and classification. To overcome the challenges,… More >

S. P. Abirami^1,*, G. Kousalya¹, R. Karthick²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.1, pp. 595-607, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.027562

Abstract Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is found to be a major concern among various occupational therapists. The foremost challenge of this neurodevelopmental disorder lies in the fact of analyzing and exploring various symptoms of the children at their early stage of development. Such early identification could prop up the therapists and clinicians to provide proper assistive support to make the children lead an independent life. Facial expressions and emotions perceived by the children could contribute to such early intervention of autism. In this regard, the paper implements in identifying basic facial expression and exploring their emotions upon a time-variant factor. The… More >

Mengxian Zhao¹, Yonghao You², Jinming Li³, Sean Healy⁴, Alyx Taylor⁵, Zhihao Zhang³, Linlin Li⁶, Liye Zou^7,*

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.24, No.4, pp. 475-489, 2022, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2022.021361

Abstract Therapeutic horseback riding (THR) as an animal-assisted intervention is one of the innovative approaches emerging in the treatment for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The current study was designed to investigate the effects of a 12-week, twice a week THR program on motor skills in sixty-eight children with ASD aged 5–10 years old. All participants selected met the DSM-V criteria for ASD, and a total of fifty-three participants completed the study. A randomized controlled trial design was utilized for the study. Data was collected via a pre-THR test, interim-THR test, and post-THR test to investigate the possible changes in… More >

Yin Liang^1,*, Gaoxu Xu¹, Sadaqat ur Rehman²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 4645-4661, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026999

Abstract Whole brain functional connectivity (FC) patterns obtained from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) have been widely used in the diagnosis of brain disorders such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Recently, an increasing number of studies have focused on employing deep learning techniques to analyze FC patterns for brain disease classification. However, the high dimensionality of the FC features and the interpretation of deep learning results are issues that need to be addressed in the FC-based brain disease classification. In this paper, we proposed a multi-scale attention-based deep neural network (MSA-DNN) model to classify FC patterns for the ASD diagnosis.… More >

A. Saranya^1,*, R. Anandan²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.33, No.2, pp. 1167-1182, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.023445

Abstract Hereditary Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neuron disorder that affects a person's ability for communication, interaction, and also behaviors. Diagnostics of autism are available throughout all stages of life, from infancy through adolescence and adulthood. Facial Emotions detection is considered to be the most parameter for the detection of Autismdisorders among the different categories of people. Propelled with a machine and deep learning algorithms, detection of autism disorder using facial emotions has reached a new dimension and has even been considered as the precautionary warning system for caregivers. Since Facial emotions are limited to only seven expressions, detection of… More >

MAKOTO NABETANI^1,*, TAKEO MUKAI²

BIOCELL, Vol.46, No.4, pp. 873-879, 2022, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2022.018218

Abstract Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental condition characterized by impairments in social communication, abnormal to absent verbal communication, the presence of repetitive stereotypic verbal and non-verbal behaviors and restricted interests, with onset early in life. We showed cognitive and behavioral characteristics of ASD by impairment of communication, cognition, perception, motor skills, executive function, theory of mind and emotion control. Recently, pathogenesis of immune pathology in the brains of individuals with ASD has been focused. New therapeutic approaches in the viewpoints of immune modulation and microglial function are logical for novel treatments for individuals with ASD. Cell therapies such… More >

Anupam Garg¹, Anshu Parashar¹, Dipto Barman², Sahil Jain³, Divya Singhal³, Mehedi Masud⁴, Mohamed Abouhawwash^5,6,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.1, pp. 1459-1471, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.022170

Abstract Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder whose symptoms become noticeable in early years of the age though it can be present in any age group. ASD is a mental disorder which affects the communicational, social and non-verbal behaviors. It cannot be cured completely but can be reduced if detected early. An early diagnosis is hampered by the variation and severity of ASD symptoms as well as having symptoms commonly seen in other mental disorders as well. Nowadays, with the emergence of deep learning approaches in various fields, medical experts can be assisted in early diagnosis of ASD. It… More >

A. Arunkumar^1,*, D. Surendran²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.41, No.1, pp. 389-404, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.020256

Abstract Difficulty in communicating and interacting with other people are mainly due to the neurological disorder called autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diseases. These diseases can affect the nerves at any stage of the human being in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. ASD is known as a behavioral disease due to the appearances of symptoms over the first two years that continue until adulthood. Most of the studies prove that the early detection of ASD helps improve the behavioral characteristics of patients with ASD. The detection of ASD is a very challenging task among various researchers. Machine learning (ML) algorithms still act very… More >