Machine Learning as a Support Tool for Early Diagnosis in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review of the Literature - Scopus

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is “a developmental disability caused by differences in the brain [1]”. With this background, the need arises to find a support tool for early diagnosis in children with autism, where machine learning and deep learning algorithms are currently available. In addition, it can be noted that it is important to have “current knowledge of the subject [2, p. 98]”, and as an initial step, the agile framework for systematic reviews of literature in formative research was used, and a thematic index was established, identifying variables and levels of variation. Likewise, the searches were semantically structured and the search scripts related to the search sprints were developed. As a result, 143 and 189 articles per sprint were found, and 6 papers that are common in the search sprint A and B were selected, which serve as the first reference in a research plan.