Autism Spectrum Disorder is a neuropsychiatric condition affecting 53 million children worldwide and for which early diagnosis is critical to the outcome of behavior therapies. Machine learning applied to features manually extracted from readily acce...
Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
Nov 13, 2020
INTRODUCTION: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), especially those with low cognitive functioning, have deficits in joint attention. Previous research has found that these children are interested in engaging with social robots.
Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Nov 3, 2020
Both researchers and practitioners often rely on direct observation to measure and monitor behavior. When these behaviors are too complex or numerous to be measured in vivo, relying on direct observation using human observers increases the amount of ...
Autism : the international journal of research and practice
Jul 30, 2020
The initiation of social interaction is often defined as a core deficit of autism spectrum disorder. Optimizing these self-initiations is therefore a key component of Pivotal Response Treatment, an established intervention for children with autism sp...
Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
Jul 24, 2020
PURPOSE: Technological advances in robotics have brought about exciting developments in different areas such as education, training, and therapy. Recent research has suggested that the robot can be even more effective in rehabilitation, therapy, and ...
Users of social media often share their feelings or emotional states through their posts. In this study, we developedĀ a deep learning model to identify a user's mental state based on his/her posting information. To this end, we collected posts from m...
Most developmental disorders are defined by their clinical symptoms and many disorders share common features. The main objective of this research is to evaluate still facial images as a potential screening test for childhood developmental disabilitie...
Autism is a developmental condition currently identified by experts using observation, interview, and questionnaire techniques and primarily assessing social and communication deficits. Motor function and movement imitation are also altered in autism...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Mar 28, 2020
Convolutional neural network (CNN) models have recently demonstrated impressive performance in medical image analysis. However, there is no clear understanding of why they perform so well, or what they have learned. In this paper, a three-dimensional...
Medical & biological engineering & computing
Mar 24, 2020
In recent years, microarray technology and gene expression profiles have been widely used to detect, predict, or classify the samples of various diseases. The presence of large genes in these profiles and the small number of samples are known challen...
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