Mediterranean Journal of Modeling and Simulation
Volume 6, Numéro 1, Pages 001-011
2016-09-30

Ensemble Classification Methods For Autism Disordered Speech

Authors : Benselama Zoubir Abdeslem . Bencherif Mohamed A. . Guessoum Abderrezak . Mekhtiche Mohamed A. .

Abstract

In this paper, we present the results of our investigation on Autism classifi…cation by applying ensemble classi…ers to disordered speech signals. The aim is to distinguish between Autism sub-classes by comparing an ensemble combining three decision methods, the sequential minimization optimization (SMO) algorithm, the random forests (RF), and the feature-subspace aggregating approach (Feating). The conducted experiments allowed a reduction of 30% of the feature space with an accuracy increase over the baseline of 8.66% in the development set and 6.62% in the test set.

Keywords

Autism; Pathology; Speech disorder; Feature selection; Ensemble classifiers.