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IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) · pp. 8598–8600 · 2024

Enhancing Early Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Multimodal Data and Explainable AI Models

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  • autism
  • multimodal
  • explainable AI
  • healthcare

Summary

Early diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is critical — earlier intervention leads to substantially better developmental outcomes — yet traditional diagnosis is slow, subjective, and resource-intensive.

This work explores combining multimodal data with explainable AI (XAI) models to support earlier, more reliable ASD detection. The emphasis on interpretability is deliberate: for AI to be trusted in a clinical setting, practitioners need to understand why a model flags a given case, not just receive a black-box prediction. Presented at IEEE BigData 2024.

Authors

Y. Abdollahinejad, M. F. Kabir

Venue

2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), pp. 8598–8600.

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