arXiv:2601.05812cs.LG2026-01中稿 · CIS 2025

用眼动数据识别自闭症,新模型更精准捕捉局部时序特征。

Detecting Autism Spectrum Disorder with Deep Eye Movement Features

  • 设计局部时序建模框架,聚焦眼动的短程依赖特性。
  • 在多个数据集上超越传统方法与复杂深度模型。
  • 适合关注行为信号分析与临床辅助诊断的研究者。

自闭症谱系障碍(ASD)是一种以社交交流缺陷和行为模式异常为特征的神经发育障碍。眼动数据作为非侵入性诊断工具,具有离散性及短期时间依赖性,能反映注视点间的局部专注模式,从而揭示细微的行为标志,区分ASD与典型发育(TD)个体。眼动信号主要包含短程和局部依赖。尽管基于Transformer的堆叠注意力层广泛用于捕捉长程依赖,但实验表明其对眼动数据提升有限,可能因注视点离散性和短程依赖降低了全局注意力效率。为此,本文提出离散短时序(DSTS)建模框架,融合类别感知表示与不平衡感知机制,有效捕捉复杂眼动模式。在多个眼动数据集上的大量实验表明,DSTS显著优于传统机器学习与先进深度学习模型。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in social communication and behavioral patterns. Eye movement data offers a non-invasive diagnostic tool for ASD detection, as it is inherently discrete and exhibits short-term temporal dependencies, reflecting localized gaze focus between fixation points. These characteristics enable the data to provide deeper insights into subtle behavioral markers, distinguishing ASD-related patterns from typical development. Eye movement signals mainly contain short-term and localized dependencies. However, despite the widespread application of stacked attention layers in Transformer-based models for capturing long-range dependencies, our experimental results indicate that this approach yields only limited benefits when applied to eye movement data. This may be because discrete fixation points and short-term dependencies in gaze focus reduce the utility of global attention mechanisms, making them less efficient than architectures focusing on local temporal patterns. To efficiently capture subtle and complex eye movement patterns, distinguishing ASD from typically developing (TD) individuals, a discrete short-term sequential (DSTS) modeling framework is designed with Class-aware Representation and Imbalance-aware Mechanisms. Through extensive experiments on several eye movement datasets, DSTS outperforms both traditional machine learning techniques and more sophisticated deep learning models.

自闭症检测眼动分析序列建模

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