Elucidating Discrepancy in Explanations of Predictive Models Developed Using EMR.

Journal: Studies in health technology and informatics
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Abstract

The lack of transparency and explainability hinders the clinical adoption of Machine learning (ML) algorithms. While explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods have been proposed, little research has focused on the agreement between these methods and expert clinical knowledge. This study applies current state-of-the-art explainability methods to clinical decision support algorithms developed for Electronic Medical Records (EMR) data to analyse the concordance between these factors and discusses causes for identified discrepancies from a clinical and technical perspective. Important factors for achieving trustworthy XAI solutions for clinical decision support are also discussed.

Authors

  • Aida Brankovic
    CSIRO Australian e-Health Research Centre, Brisbane, QLD, 4029, Australia. aida.brankovic@csiro.au.
  • Wenjie Huang
    The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
  • David Cook
    Key Family of Companies Indianapolis, Indiana.
  • Sankalp Khanna
    CSIRO Australian e-Health Research Centre, Brisbane, QLD, 4029, Australia.
  • Konstanty Bialkowski
    The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.