Automatic Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Using Machine Learning
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that includes symptoms such as inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsiveness. It is considered as an important public health issue, and prevalence of diagnosis has increased as awareness of the disease grew over the...
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| author | Tianhua Chen Grigoris Antoniou Marios Adamou Ilias Tachmazidis Pan Su |
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| description | Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that includes symptoms such as inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsiveness. It is considered as an important public health issue, and prevalence of diagnosis has increased as awareness of the disease grew over the past years. Supply of specialist medical experts has not kept pace with the increasing demand for assessment, both due to financial pressures on health systems and the difficulty to train new experts, resulting in growing waiting lists. Patients are not being treated quickly enough causing problems in other areas of health systems (e.g. increased GP visits, increased risk of self-harm and accidents) and more broadly (e.g. time off work, relationship problems). Advances in machine learning make it possible to attempt to diagnose ADHD based on the analysis of relevant data, and this could inform clinical practice. This paper reports on findings related to the mental health services of a specialist Trust within the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The analysis studied data of adult patients who underwent diagnosis over the past few years, and developed a diagnostic model for ADHD in adults. The results demonstrate that it is indeed possible to correctly diagnose ADHD patients with promising statistical accuracy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a755174b2f2c423e856437dd54216de12023-09-15T09:33:59ZengTaylor & Francis GroupApplied Artificial Intelligence0883-95141087-65452021-07-0135965766910.1080/08839514.2021.19337611933761Automatic Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Using Machine LearningTianhua Chen0Grigoris Antoniou1Marios Adamou2Ilias Tachmazidis3Pan Su4University of HuddersfieldUniversity of HuddersfieldSchool of Human and Health Sciences, University of HuddersfieldUniversity of HuddersfieldNorth China Electric Power UniversityAttention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that includes symptoms such as inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsiveness. It is considered as an important public health issue, and prevalence of diagnosis has increased as awareness of the disease grew over the past years. Supply of specialist medical experts has not kept pace with the increasing demand for assessment, both due to financial pressures on health systems and the difficulty to train new experts, resulting in growing waiting lists. Patients are not being treated quickly enough causing problems in other areas of health systems (e.g. increased GP visits, increased risk of self-harm and accidents) and more broadly (e.g. time off work, relationship problems). Advances in machine learning make it possible to attempt to diagnose ADHD based on the analysis of relevant data, and this could inform clinical practice. This paper reports on findings related to the mental health services of a specialist Trust within the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The analysis studied data of adult patients who underwent diagnosis over the past few years, and developed a diagnostic model for ADHD in adults. The results demonstrate that it is indeed possible to correctly diagnose ADHD patients with promising statistical accuracy.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08839514.2021.1933761 |
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| title | Automatic Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Using Machine Learning |
| title_full | Automatic Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Using Machine Learning |
| title_fullStr | Automatic Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Using Machine Learning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Automatic Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Using Machine Learning |
| title_short | Automatic Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Using Machine Learning |
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