CNNG: A Convolutional Neural Networks With Gated Recurrent Units for Autism Spectrum Disorder Classification

Wenjing Jiang, Shuaiqi Liu, Hong Zhang, Xiuming Sun*, Shui Hua Wang, Jie Zhao, Jingwen Yan

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Abstract

As a neurodevelopmental disorder, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) severely affects the living conditions of patients and their families. Early diagnosis of ASD can enable the disease to be effectively intervened in the early stage of development. In this paper, we present an ASD classification network defined as CNNG by combining of convolutional neural network (CNN) and gate recurrent unit (GRU). First, CNNG extracts the 3D spatial features of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data by using the convolutional layer of the 3D CNN. Second, CNNG extracts the temporal features by using the GRU and finally classifies them by using the Sigmoid function. The performance of CNNG was validated on the international public data—autism brain imaging data exchange (ABIDE) dataset. According to the experiments, CNNG can be highly effective in extracting the spatio-temporal features of fMRI and achieving a classification accuracy of 72.46%.

Original languageEnglish
Article number948704
JournalFrontiers in Aging Neuroscience
Volume14
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Jul 2022
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • ABIDE
  • ASD classification
  • CNN
  • CNNG
  • spatio-temporal features

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