Automated identification for autism severity level: EEG analysis using empirical mode decomposition and second order difference plot.

Journal: Behavioural brain research
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Previous automated EEG-based diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) using various nonlinear EEG analysis methods were limited to distinguish only children with ASD from those normally developed without approaching their autistic features severity.

Authors

  • Hikmat Hadoush
    Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences at Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan. Electronic address: hmhadoush@just.edu.jo.
  • Maha Alafeef
    Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan. Electronic address: alafeef2@illinois.edu.
  • Enas Abdulhay
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan. ewabdulhay@just.edu.jo.