Los autores declaran no presentar conflictos de intereses en relación con la preparación y publicación de este artículo. Rodríguez Molinero L, y cols. Estudio psicométrico-clínico de prevalencia y comorbilidad del trastorno por déficit de atención con hiperactividad 252
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurobehavioral disorder in children and adolescents. However, its etiology is still unknown, and this hinders the existence of reliable, fast and inexpensive standard diagnostic methods. Objective: This paper proposes an end-to-end methodology for automatic diagnosis of the combined type of ADHD. Methods: Diagnosis is based on the analysis of 24 hour-long activity records using Convolutional Neural Networks to classify spectrograms of activity windows. Results: We achieve up to 97.62% average sensitivity, 99.52% specificity and AUC values over 99%. Overall, our figures overcome those obtained by actigraphy-based methods reported in the literature as well as others based on more expensive (and not so convenient) acquisition methods. Conclusion: These results reinforce the idea that combining deep learning techniques together with actimetry, a robust and efficient system for the objective ADHD diagnosis is achievable. Significance: Reliance on simple activity measurements leads to an inexpensive and non-invasive objective diagnostic method, which can be easily implemented with daily devices.
RESUMEN El estudio analiza el desarrollo a través de la edad de dimensiones clínicas, cognitivas, académicas y relacionales en casos clínicos de Trastorno por Déficit de Atención con Hiperactividad (TDAH). Metodología de investigación: Se analiza una muestra de 90 casos con TDAH (6-16 años), con un diseño seccional, comparaciones transversales y criterios de investigación diferencial en función de la edad. El caso de TDAH se valoró según criterios DSM-IV y se consideraron las variables perfil intelectual, resultados académicos, dimensión relacional y comorbilidad. Se utilizaron estadísticos descriptivos y exploratorios, implementando un procedimiento de regresión lineal. Resultados: Los casos de TDAH analizados presentan importante alteración en dimensiones clínicas, académicas y relacionales. Solo los resultados académicos se deterioran progresivamente con la edad (p<0.05).
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