A manifesto on explainability for artificial intelligence in medicine

The rapid increase of interest in, and use of, artificial intelligence (AI) in computer applications has raised a parallel concern about its ability (or lack thereof) to provide understandable, or explainable, output to users. This concern is especially legitimate in biomedical contexts, where patient safety is of paramount importance. This position paper brings together seven researchers working in the field with different roles and perspectives, to explore in depth the concept of explainable AI, or XAI, offering a functional definition and conceptual framework or model that can be used when considering XAI. This is followed by a series of desiderata for attaining explainability in AI, each of which touches upon a key domain in biomedicine.

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This paper focuses on the importance of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in the field of biomedicine. By bringing together researchers with different roles and perspectives, it explores XAI in depth and presents a series of requirements for achieving explainability in AI.