Autism Spectrum Disorder is one of the most challenging neurodevelopmental disorders, an‎d its early diagnosis plays a significant role in improving the quality of life an‎d designing therapeutic interventions. In this research, electroencephalographic signals were used to provide an automated an‎d non-invasive method for autism diagnosis. First, the Independent Component Analysis method was employed to remove noise an‎d extract the main components of the signals. Then, averaging was performed over all EEG channels, separately over 10 selec‎ted channels, an‎d also over four brain regions including the frontal, central, parietal, an‎d occipital regions to examine different data on deep learning models. Subsequently, the resulting data were fed into VGG-16, ResNet-18, ResNet-50, an‎d LSTM neural networks. Due to the limited data volume, a transfer learning approach was used to improve model performance, an‎d the models were eva‎luated using five-fold cross-validation. The results showed that the ResNet-50 network performed better than other models an‎d achieved a mean accuracy of 92.11% an‎d a stan‎dard deviation of 1.66% using the voting method. These results demonstrate the high capability of deep learning-based models in analyzing EEG data an‎d accurately distinguishing between healthy individuals an‎d those with autism.

فرزانه شايق بروجني , حامد نريماني

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