Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
is a set of neurological impairments which are incurable but can be
improved with early treatment. We obtained slightly earlier detected ASD
datasets pertaining to children and highly processed the dataset as
needed. Various ML approaches were applied to the collected dataset and
compared their performance based on accuracy, precision, recall,
f-measure, log loss, kappa statistics, and MCC. We found that Random
Forest and XGBoost provide the best performance with 97.70% accuracy.
Model Interpretation methods were applied to interpret the models how
they predict positive or negative class. In addition to that important
feature and the impact of features on each class been found by shapely
value. The impact of features on ASD is found to find the risk factors,
which are mostly related or responsible for ASD. The study’s findings
indicate that, when properly tuned, machine learning approaches can
offer accurate forecasts of ASD status. According to the findings, the
suggested model has the ability to diagnose ASD in its early phases.