Bibliographic citations
Flores, J., (2022). Detección de autismo en niños menores a cinco años mediante análisis de la respuesta pupilar a estímulos externos [Tesis, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14076/25225
Flores, J., Detección de autismo en niños menores a cinco años mediante análisis de la respuesta pupilar a estímulos externos [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería; 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14076/25225
@mastersthesis{renati/712585,
title = "Detección de autismo en niños menores a cinco años mediante análisis de la respuesta pupilar a estímulos externos",
author = "Flores Apaza, Juan Vidal",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería",
year = "2022"
}
An early autistic diagnosis in small kids is by any means an easy task, because the traditional method for autism diagnosis involves behavioral patterns to be analyzed by an expert. Such patterns tend to develop on the late stages of children development. The current thesis focuses on validating an alternative detection for autism by observing the parasympathetic nervous system responses (more specifically, pupil responses) on kids. This detection tool will not require any behavioral analysis. It is possible to detect a relation between certain pupil responses on kids and their diagnosis of autism. The resulting detection tool of the current developed technique obtained very competitive sensitivity (0.93) and specificity (0.86) indexes. In order to achieve this goal, a protocol has been developed for recording on video the toddler’s pupil responses, in addition to an electronic circuit design and an illumination system. Moreover, algorithms based on image, signals and video processing have been developed in order to process the obtained videos thanks to the application of the aforementioned protocol. These algorithms involve concepts such as detection by using Haar-Like Features (HLF), image tracking, signal filtering, binarization, clustering by using k-means, and curve fitting. Results obtained by studying 30 different cases statistically show different pupil responses among 14 Autism-Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and 16 (then 14) non-ASD toddlers, thus validating the initial hypothesis.
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