Micro-movement as an objective measure to assess autism spectrum disorder

IF 0.4 Q4 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS Qwerty Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI:10.30557/qw000017

Roberta Simeoli, Angelo Rega, D. Marocco

引用次数: 4

Abstract

The assessment of the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has always focused on the observational analysis of behavior, primarily aiming to detect the presence of some behaviors considered typical of the disorder. However, autism is often characterized by motor abnormalities as well. This paper presents a pilot study with the aim to assess the preliminary capability of a software for micro-movement analysis to detect typical characteristics of movement in subjects with ASD. Therefore, the software has been tested on a small sample of ASD subjects and the results have been compared to those of a group of subjects with typical development (TD). The results showed that it is possible to observe some differences between the groups in relation to some parameters of effectiveness, linearity, and average speed of trajectories.

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微运动作为评估自闭症谱系障碍的客观指标

自闭症谱系障碍(ASD)的评估一直侧重于对行为的观察分析，主要目的是检测被认为是该障碍典型行为的存在。然而，自闭症通常也以运动异常为特征。本文提出了一项试点研究，旨在评估微运动分析软件的初步能力，以检测ASD受试者的典型运动特征。因此，该软件已经在一小部分ASD受试者身上进行了测试，并将结果与一组典型发展(TD)受试者的结果进行了比较。结果表明，两组之间在轨迹的有效性、线性度和平均速度等参数上存在一定的差异。

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Qwerty COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS-

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2.40

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15.40%

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