Our Science
A Proactive Approach to Pediatric Behavioral Health
Use of Cognoa’s diagnosis aid may support healthcare providers in making proactive and timely diagnoses of autism in the primary care setting. Earlier diagnoses may allow for earlier interventions, which have been shown to improve outcomes.
AI approaches are suitable for aiding medical diagnoses.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) uses pattern recognition to uncover clinically meaningful relationships that exist between signs, symptoms, and behaviors. AI unlocks clinically relevant information hidden in massive amounts of healthcare data and identifies complex non-linear patterns between patient features and diagnosis1-3.
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Earlier Diagnosis
While a child as young as 18 months can be reliably diagnosed with autism, multiple factors have driven the average age of diagnosis to 4 years and 3 months, an average delay of 3 years between parental concern and a formal autism diagnosis1. Because most autism-specific interventions require an autism diagnosis, delays in diagnosis can result in missed opportunities during a critical window in the child’s neuro-development2. Early initiation of evidence-based ASD interventions during this key window of neurodevelopment leads to substantially improved long-term outcomes3.
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