20th AIAI 2024, 27 - 30 June 2024, Corfu, Greece

Hybrid Explanatory Interactive Machine Learning for Medical Diagnosis

Emanuel Slany, Stephan Scheele, Ute Schmid

Abstract:

  Machine learning (ML) models can be an effective assistance in medical diagnosis if they allow physicians to project their knowledge into model's internal mechanism. Using model-agnostic explanatory interactive ML (XIML), physicians iteratively train a ML model and revise its decision-making mechanism depicted as local explanation.Counterexamples serve as additional training data and statistically outweigh the human feedback. Unfortunately, counterexamples alone do not guarantee that the feedback persists in subsequent optimization iterations --a form of catastrophic forgetting in XIML, which might cause serious consequences in sensitive domains such as medical diagnosis. To overcome this issue, we propose a hybrid approach: HYXIML collects the physicians' feedback, learns a set of probabilistic logical rules, and substitutes the predictions for closely related instances by logical inferences. We show that the connection of XIML and probabilistic logic enhances the explanatory performance whilst retaining a stable predictive performance.  

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