In the minds of parents of autistic children, Professor Zou Xiaobing of the Child Development and Behavior Center of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University is an authority in diagnosing autism, and he and his team are even lined up six months later. But in the future, parents will not have to wait as long.

On October 25, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University Psychiatric and Neurological Disease Research Center was officially opened. According to reports, this is the first "brain disease center" in Guangdong. The center integrates the disciplinary resources of the Children's Developmental Behavioral Center of Sun Yat-sen Third Hospital, focusing on the research direction includes the use of artificial intelligence technology to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of autism in children. Zou Xiaobing team is developing a set of artificial intelligence system, autism diagnosis level close to the level of expert team.

In recent years, brain science is becoming an important multidisciplinary intersection of cutting-edge scientific research hotspot. Rong Limin, director of Zhongshan Tri-Institute Psychiatric and Neurological Disease Research Center and president of Zhongshan Tri-Institute, introduced that the center integrates the advantageous resources of Zhongshan Tri-Institute's Child Development and Behavioral Center, Psychiatry and Psychology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Spine Surgery, Rehabilitation, Biological Therapy Center, and other brain-related disciplines, and focuses on autism, cerebral and spinal cord injuries, post-injury neurological rehabilitation, and depression as the four major medical areas, relying on the stem cell technology and big-data artificial intelligence platforms. Depression, and carry out clinical diagnosis and treatment, as well as industry-academia-research for these diseases.

Rong Limin said that the four major research directions of the research center include: first, research on early assisted diagnosis and treatment of autism in children based on artificial intelligence; second, research on clinical treatment and mechanism of cerebral and spinal cord injuries based on stem cells; third, research on rehabilitation after neurological injuries based on precise regulation technology; and fourth, construction of an accurate diagnosis and treatment platform for depressive disorders based on big data and artificial intelligence.

He said the center will carry out in-depth basic and clinical research through coordinated multidisciplinary collaboration, and expects to achieve relevant research results in the above four areas within 2-3 years, and form an industrial, academic and research base of encephalopathy, which will gradually radiate to the province, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, the Greater Bay Area and other places.

Artificial intelligence will be used to assist autism diagnosis in the future

Rong Limin pointed out that, as a research hospital with a full range of brain disciplines, distinctive specialty characteristics, and a combination of medicine, education and research, Zhongshan Sanhua Hospital has set up this research center, which, in addition to carrying out research, aims to use big data and artificial intelligence technology to provide more convenience for patients.

To artificial intelligence-assisted autism diagnosis, for example, at present, the main focus on children's autism in Zhongshan Third Hospital Children's Behavioral Development Center is renowned throughout the country, Professor Zou Xiaobing's team's number is very sought-after.