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AI-Assisted MI diagnosis from echocardiogram videos: does explainability enhance human-AI collaborative accuracy?
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DOI：10.1080/14796678.2026.2620956.png)
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BackgroundEchocardiography after myocardial infarction (MI) provides clinically useful information through assessment of regional wall motion abnormalities, but interpretation requires expertise and remains subject to observer variability. Artificial intelligence (AI) shows promise in automatic interpretation, but it is unclear how explainability affects human-AI collaborative performance.MethodsA ResNet18-LSTM model was trained to classify normal vs MI on 127 apical four chamber (A4C) and 120 apical two chamber (A2C) echocardiogram videos from the HMC-QU dataset. Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM provided visual explanations. Eight cardiology trainees compared diagnostic performance across three conditions: (a) echo clips alone, (b) echo clips with AI predictions, and (c) echo clips with AI predictions plus Grad-CAM explanations.ResultsThe AI models demonstrated strong discriminative performance with AUCs of 0.9429 (A2C) and 0.9250 (A4C). AI alone achieved 80.0% accuracy versus 77.0% for clinicians alone. Surprisingly, combining AI with human judgment did not improve performance, and introducing visual explanations reduced accuracy to 72% and specificity from 93.8% to 83.8% (p = 0.046).ConclusionWhile AI models can effectively detect MI on echocardiographic videos, current explainability techniques may misalign with clinical reasoning, potentially impairing diagnostic performance. Future integration requires AI visual explanation strategies that complement clinician expertise.
Keywords:
Echocardiography
myocardial infarction
explainable AI (XAI)
artificial intelligence (AI)
grad-CAM
human-AI collaboration
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