Journal
COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Volume 133, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104393
Keywords
Machine learning; Time series; Heartbeat classification; Electrocardiogram; Explainable artificial intelligence; Model-agnostic method; Visual explanations; Usability; Human-AI interfaces
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This study focuses on an Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) solution to improve the interpretability of heartbeat classification. By introducing a novel method that adds temporal dependency between time samples in time series data, the classification explanation becomes more reliable and trustworthy.
Treatment and prevention of cardiovascular diseases often rely on Electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation. Dependent on the physician's variability, ECG interpretation is subjective and prone to errors. Machine learning models are often developed and used to support doctors; however, their lack of interpretability stands as one of the main drawbacks of their widespread operation. This paper focuses on an Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) solution to make heartbeat classification more explainable using several state-of-the-art model-agnostic methods. We introduce a high-level conceptual framework for explainable time series and propose an original method that adds temporal dependency between time samples using the time series' derivative. The results were validated in the MIT-BIH arrhythmia dataset: we performed a performance's analysis to evaluate whether the explanations fit the model's behaviour; and employed the 1-D Jaccard's index to compare the subsequences extracted from an interpretable model and the XAI methods used. Our results show that the use of the raw signal and its derivative includes temporal dependency between samples to promote classification explanation. A small but informative user study concludes this study to evaluate the potential of the visual explanations produced by our original method for being adopted in real-world clinical settings, either as diagnostic aids or training resource.
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