Quantifying Explainable AI-introduced signal noise on ECG data with Spectral Entropy

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24974v1
• Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:47:29 GMT
• Title: Quantifying Explainable AI-introduced signal noise on ECG data with Spectral Entropy
• Abstract summary: We propose the use of spectral entropy as a measure of noise in XAI output.<n>We demonstrate its usefulness in the context of classifying arrhythmias in an ECG dataset.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Explainability techniques are used to assess the output of various deep learning models. This is especially true in healthcare, where models need to be trusted and decisions justified. Explainability (XAI) tools use heuristics which often add signal noise to the explanation "core". It is not always obvious what is signal from the model and what is noise from the XAI. We propose the use of spectral entropy as a measure of noise in XAI output. We demonstrate its usefulness in the context of classifying arrhythmias in an ECG dataset with different post hoc explainability techniques.

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