@inproceedings{
hu2024towards,
title={Towards Multi-dimensional Explanation Alignment for Medical Classification},
author={Lijie Hu and Songning Lai and Wenshuo Chen and Hongru Xiao and Hongbin Lin and Lu Yu and Jingfeng Zhang and Di Wang},
booktitle={The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=3A5VgiH5Pw}
}
The lack of interpretability in the field of medical image analysis has significant ethical and legal implications. Existing interpretable methods in this domain encounter several challenges, including dependency on specific models, difficulties in understanding and visualization, and issues related to efficiency. To address these limitations, we propose a novel framework called Med-MICN (Medical Multi-dimensional Interpretable Concept Network). Med-MICN provides interpretability alignment for various angles, including neural symbolic reasoning, concept semantics, and saliency maps, which are superior to current interpretable methods. Its advantages include high prediction accuracy, interpretability across multiple dimensions, and automation through an end-to-end concept labeling process that reduces the need for extensive human training effort when working with new datasets. To demonstrate the effectiveness and interpretability of Med-MICN, we apply it to four benchmark datasets and compare it with baselines. The results clearly demonstrate the superior performance and interpretability of our Med-MICN.
Towards Multi-dimensional Explanation Alignment for Medical Classification
Lijie Hu Songning Lai Wenshuo Chen Hongru Xiao Hongbin Lin Lu Yu Jingfeng Zhang Di Wang