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Vision-language models enhance autism screening with deterministic evidence layer

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Researchers have developed a new method for screening autism spectrum disorder (ASD) using vision-language models (VLMs) applied to naturalistic home videos. This approach addresses the instability of current VLM predictions by freezing the model and implementing a deterministic evidence layer. This layer generates an event table of timestamped behaviors, calibrates confidence, and uses a weight-of-evidence scorer to stratify risk categories, allowing for transparent, reproducible decisions. The pipeline achieved an AUC of 0.851 and 86.0% accuracy on home video clips, significantly improving consistent labeling compared to zero-shot baselines. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more reliable and accessible early identification of autism spectrum disorder through improved VLM stability.

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Wenqi Li, Mindi Ruan, Chuanbo Hu, Shuo Wang, Xin Li ·

    A Deterministic Evidence Layer for Vision-Language Autism Screening from Naturalistic Home Video

    arXiv:2610.09217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is diagnosed through specialist observation of a child's social behavior, and access to that expertise is the bottleneck for early identification. Vision-language models (VLMs) describe a child's behav…

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