Can Attention Be Used to Explain EHR-Based Mortality Prediction Tasks: A Case Study on Hemorrhagic Stroke

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05110v1
• Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 04:28:07 GMT
• Title: Can Attention Be Used to Explain EHR-Based Mortality Prediction Tasks: A Case Study on Hemorrhagic Stroke
• Authors: Qizhang Feng, Jiayi Yuan, Forhan Bin Emdad, Karim Hanna, Xia Hu, Zhe He
• Abstract summary: Stroke is a significant cause of mortality and morbidity, necessitating early predictive strategies to minimize risks. Traditional methods for evaluating patients have limited accuracy and interpretability. This paper proposes an interpretable, attention-based transformer model for early stroke mortality prediction.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Stroke is a significant cause of mortality and morbidity, necessitating early predictive strategies to minimize risks. Traditional methods for evaluating patients, such as Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II, IV) and Simplified Acute Physiology Score III (SAPS III), have limited accuracy and interpretability. This paper proposes a novel approach: an interpretable, attention-based transformer model for early stroke mortality prediction. This model seeks to address the limitations of previous predictive models, providing both interpretability (providing clear, understandable explanations of the model) and fidelity (giving a truthful explanation of the model's dynamics from input to output). Furthermore, the study explores and compares fidelity and interpretability scores using Shapley values and attention-based scores to improve model explainability. The research objectives include designing an interpretable attention-based transformer model, evaluating its performance compared to existing models, and providing feature importance derived from the model.

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