A study on identification of autism using soft computing techniques

Abstract

Neural networks are parallel distributed adaptive informationprocessing newlinesystems that develop their functionality in response to exposure to newlineinformation Computerized medical decision support systems have been a newlinemajor research topic in recent years A massive research work is still being newlinedone by different researchers in predicting and classifying different diseases newlineusing artificial neural networks ANN which give many different answers in newlinemany different problem areas But the greatest challenges of medical newlinepractitioners are to identify neurological disorders in infants rather than a newlinedisease In India the awareness of autism in infants are very low Even the newlinespecial educators clinical psychologists pediatricians and occupational newlinetherapists find it very difficult in identifying neurological disorders like newlineautism and Attention DeficitHyperactivity Disorder ADHDetc newline newline