Evolving visual counterfactual medical imagery explanations with cooperative co-evolution using dynamic decomposition
Abstract
Explainable AI (XAI) is becoming increasingly vital in healthcare, particularly in understanding decisions made by complex, black-box models in medical diagnostics. Amid discussions on balancing AI's predictive accuracy with interpretability, 'post-hoc' XAI methods are a potential solution, offering interpretability after model training without compromising diagnostic precision. Counterfactual explanations are one such 'post-hoc' XAI technique, where these explanations modify input data, like features in an X-ray image, to see how such changes affect AI image-driven diagnoses, offering insights into the model's reasoning. However, the complexity of medical image data poses challenges in generating these counterfactuals. To address this challenge, we propose a novel Cooperative Co-evolution approach with dynamic decomposition for explainability in AI for medical diagnostics by evolving visual counterfactual explanations for medical images without requiring preliminary assumptions about image decomposition. The method, evaluated using MNIST and Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis datasets and benchmarked against a genetic algorithm, was capable of generating counterfactual explanations for medical images, showing advantages with larger images.
RAS ID
71870
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Date of Publication
7-14-2024
School
School of Science
Copyright
subscription content
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Identifier
Luke Kelly: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5194-3821
Martin Masek: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8620-6779
Chiou Peng Lam: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4843-9229
Brandon Abela: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5764-9554
Comments
Kelly, L., Masek, M., Lam, C. P., Abela, B., & Gupta, A. (2024, July). Evolving visual counterfactual medical imagery explanations with cooperative co-evolution using dynamic decomposition. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (pp. 291-294). https://doi.org/10.1145/3638530.3654224