Applying Machine Learning to Facilitate Autism Diagnostics: Pitfalls and Promises

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1121-1136

  Bone, Daniel ^a   Goodwin, Matthew S ^b   Black, Matthew P ^c   Lee, Chi Chun ^d   Audhkhasi, Kartik ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Autism; Autism diagnostic interview; Autism diagnostic observation schedule; Diagnosis; Machine learning; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS;

EID: 84939888491     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-014-2268-6     Document Type: Article

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