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Explaining Black-Box Models for Biomedical Text Classification

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Milad Moradi *
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Matthias Samwald
DOI:10.1109/JBHI.2021.3056748delete
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In this paper, we propose a novel method named Biomedical Confident Itemsets Explanation (BioCIE), aiming at post-hoc explanation of black-box machine learning models for biomedical text classification. Using sources of domain knowledge and a confident itemset mining method, BioCIE discretizes the decision space of a black-box into smaller subspaces and extracts semantic relationships between the input text and class labels in different subspaces. Confident itemsets discover how biomedical concepts are related to class labels in the black-box's decision space. BioCIE uses the itemsets to approximate the black-box's behavior for individual predictions. Optimizing fidelity, interpretability, and coverage measures, BioCIE produces class-wise explanations that represent decision boundaries of the black-box. Results of evaluations on various biomedical text classification tasks and black-box models demonstrated that BioCIE can outperform perturbation-based and decision set methods in terms of producing concise, accurate, and interpretable explanations. BioCIE improved the fidelity of instance-wise and class-wise explanations by 11.6% and 7.5%, respectively. It also improved the interpretability of explanations by 8%. BioCIE can be effectively used to explain how a black-box biomedical text classification model semantically relates input texts to class labels. The source code and supplementary material are available at https://github.com/mmoradi-iut/BioCIE.
Keywords:
Biological system modeling
Itemsets
Text categorization
Artificial intelligence
Predictive models
Data models
Semantics
Biomedical text classification
black-box classifiers
explainable artificial intelligence
information extraction
interpretable machine learning
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IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics cover
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
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Medical University of Vienna
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