Predicting Autism Spectrum Disorder using Machine Learning Technique
Jaber Alwidian1, Ammar Elhassan2, Rawan Ghnemat3
1Jaber Alwidian, King Hussein School of Computing Sciences Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT), Jordan.
2Ammar Elhassan, King Hussein School of Computing Sciences Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT), Jordan.
3Rawan Ghnemat, King Hussein School of Computing Sciences Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT), Jordan.
Manuscript received on January 05, 2020. | Revised Manuscript received on January 25, 2020. | Manuscript published on January 30, 2020. | PP: 4139-4145 | Volume-8 Issue-5, January 2020. | Retrieval Number: E6016018520/2020©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijrte.E6016.018520
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Abstract: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a psychiatric disorder that puts constraints on the ability to use of cognitive, linguistic, communicative, and social skills. Recently, many data mining techniques employed to serve this domain by determining the main features of the condition and the correlation between them. In this article, we investigate the Association Classification (AC) technique as a data mining technique in predicting whether an individual has autism or not. Accordingly, seven well-known algorithms are selected to conduct analysis and evaluation of the performance of the AC technique in term of identifying correlations between the features to help decide early on whether an individual has autism; this is particularly significant for children. The evaluation for the behavior and the performance in the prediction tasks for the AC algorithms was conducted for the common metrics of including Precision, Accuracy F-Measure as well as Recall. Finally, a comparative performance analysis among the algorithms was used as final result for the study. The results show better performance for the WCBA algorithm in most test scenarios with accuracy of 97 % although, the majority of algorithms exhibited excellent accuracy when applied in this domain.
Keywords: Association Classification, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Association Rules, Classification.
Scope of the Article: Classification.