Evaluating Explainable AI on a Multi-Modal Medical Imaging Task: Can Existing Algorithms Fulfill Clinical Requirements?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.06487v2
• Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 16:53:18 GMT
• Title: Evaluating Explainable AI on a Multi-Modal Medical Imaging Task: Can Existing Algorithms Fulfill Clinical Requirements?
• Authors: Weina Jin, Xiaoxiao Li, Ghassan Hamarneh
• Abstract summary: Heatmap is a form of explanation that highlights important features for AI models' prediction. It is unknown how well heatmaps perform on explaining decisions on multi-modal medical images. We propose the modality-specific feature importance (MSFI) metric to tackle this clinically important but technically ignored problem.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Being able to explain the prediction to clinical end-users is a necessity to leverage the power of artificial intelligence (AI) models for clinical decision support. For medical images, a feature attribution map, or heatmap, is the most common form of explanation that highlights important features for AI models' prediction. However, it is unknown how well heatmaps perform on explaining decisions on multi-modal medical images, where each image modality or channel visualizes distinct clinical information of the same underlying biomedical phenomenon. Understanding such modality-dependent features is essential for clinical users' interpretation of AI decisions. To tackle this clinically important but technically ignored problem, we propose the modality-specific feature importance (MSFI) metric. It encodes clinical image and explanation interpretation patterns of modality prioritization and modality-specific feature localization. We conduct a clinical requirement-grounded, systematic evaluation using computational methods and a clinician user study. Results show that the examined 16 heatmap algorithms failed to fulfill clinical requirements to correctly indicate AI model decision process or decision quality. The evaluation and MSFI metric can guide the design and selection of XAI algorithms to meet clinical requirements on multi-modal explanation.

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