Abstract:
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is one neuro developmental disorder that is now widespread in the world.
ASD persists throughout the life of an individual, impacting the way they behave and communicate, resulting to
notable deficits consisting of social life retardation, repeated behavioural traits and a restriction in their interests.
Early detection of the disorder helps in the onset treatment and helps one to lead a normal life. There are clinical
approaches used in detection of autism, relying on behavioural data and in worst cases, neuroimaging. Quantitative
methods involving machine learning have been studied and developed to overcome issues with clinical approaches.
These quantitative methods rely on machine learning, with some complex methods based on deep learning developed
to accelerate detection and diagnosis of ASD. These literature is aimed at exploring most state-of-the-art probabilistic
methods in use today, characterizing them with the type of dataset they’re most applied on, their accuracy according
to their novel research and how well they are suited in ASD classification. The findings will purposely serve as a
benchmark in selection of the model to use when performing ASD detection.
