Author:
Alves Caroline L.,Toutain Thaise G. L. de O.,de Carvalho Aguiar Patricia,Pineda Aruane M.,Roster Kirstin,Thielemann Christiane,Porto Joel Augusto Moura,Rodrigues Francisco A.
Abstract
AbstractAutism is a multifaceted neurodevelopmental condition whose accurate diagnosis may be challenging because the associated symptoms and severity vary considerably. The wrong diagnosis can affect families and the educational system, raising the risk of depression, eating disorders, and self-harm. Recently, many works have proposed new methods for the diagnosis of autism based on machine learning and brain data. However, these works focus on only one pairwise statistical metric, ignoring the brain network organization. In this paper, we propose a method for the automatic diagnosis of autism based on functional brain imaging data recorded from 500 subjects, where 242 present autism spectrum disorder considering the regions of interest throughout Bootstrap Analysis of Stable Cluster map. Our method can distinguish the control group from autism spectrum disorder patients with high accuracy. Indeed the best performance provides an AUC near 1.0, which is higher than that found in the literature. We verify that the left ventral posterior cingulate cortex region is less connected to an area in the cerebellum of patients with this neurodevelopment disorder, which agrees with previous studies. The functional brain networks of autism spectrum disorder patients show more segregation, less distribution of information across the network, and less connectivity compared to the control cases. Our workflow provides medical interpretability and can be used on other fMRI and EEG data, including small data sets.
Funder
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo,Brazil
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Technische Hochschule Aschaffenburg
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Cited by
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