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If you use this repository, please cite:
@article{patricio2023explainable,
title={Explainable Deep Learning Methods in Medical Image Classification: A Survey},
author={Patr{\'\i}cio, Cristiano and Neves, Jo{\~a}o C and Teixeira, Lu{\'\i}s F},
journal={ACM Computing Surveys},
volume={56},
number={4},
pages={1--41},
year={2023}
}
- Survey Papers
- XAI Methods in Medical Diagnosis
- Milda Pocevičiute, Gabriel Eilertsen, and Claes Lundström
Survey of XAI in Digital Pathology
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Digital Pathology: State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges, 56–88, 2020
📄 Paper
- Erico Tjoa and Cuntai Guan
A Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Towards Medical XAI
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 32, 11 (2020), 4793–4813
📄 Paper
- Amitojdeep Singh, Sourya Sengupta, and Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan
Explainable Deep Learning Models in Medical Image Analysis
Journal of Imaging 6, 6 (2020), 52
📄 Paper
- Mehmet A Gulum, Christopher M Trombley, and Mehmed Kantardzic
A Review of Explainable Deep Learning Cancer Detection Models in Medical Imaging
Applied Sciences 11, 10 (2021), 4573
📄 Paper
- Hareem Ayesha, Sajid Iqbal, Mehreen Tariq, Muhammad Abrar, Muhammad Sanaullah, Ishaq Abbas, Amjad Rehman, Muhammad
Farooq Khan Niazi, and Shafiq Hussain
Automatic medical image interpretation: State of the art and future directions
Pattern Recognition 114 (2021), 107856
📄 Paper
- Zohaib Salahuddin, Henry C. Woodruff, Avishek Chatterjee, and Philippe Lambin
Transparency of Deep Neural Networks for Medical Image Analysis: A Review of Interpretability Methods
Computers in Biology and Medicine 140 (2022), 105111
📄 Paper
- Pablo Messina, Pablo Pino, Denis Parra, Alvaro Soto, Cecilia Besa, Sergio Uribe, Marcelo Andía, Cristian Tejos, Claudia Prieto, and
Daniel Capurro
A survey on deep learning and explainability for automatic report generation from medical images
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 54, 10s (2022), 1–40
📄 Paper
- Avleen Malhi, Timotheus Kampik, Husanbir Pannu, Manik Madhikermi, and Kary Främling
Explaining Machine Learning-Based Classifications of In-Vivo Gastral Images
Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 1–7, 2019
📄 Paper
- Kyle Young, Gareth Booth, Becks Simpson, Reuben Dutton, and Sally Shrapnel
Deep Neural Network or Dermatologist?
Interpretability of Machine Intelligence in Medical Image Computing and Multimodal Learning for Clinical Decision Support, 48–55, 2019
📄 Paper
- Fabian Eitel and Kerstin Ritter for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI)
Testing the Robustness of Attribution Methods for Convolutional Neural Networks in MRI-Based Alzheimer’s Disease Classification
Medical Image Computing and Multimodal Learning for Clinical Decision Support (IMIMIC), 3–11, 2019
📄 Paper
- Pavan Rajkumar Magesh, Richard Delwin Myloth, and Rijo Jackson Tom
An Explainable Machine Learning Model for Early Detection of Parkinson’s Disease using LIME on DaTscan Imagery
Computers in Biology and Medicine 126 (2020), 104041
📄 Paper
- Narinder Singh Punn and Sonali Agarwal
Automated diagnosis of COVID-19 with limited posteroanterior chest X-ray images using fine-tuned deep neural networks
Applied Intelligence 51, 5 (2021), 2689–2702
📄 Paper
- Sutong Wang, Yunqiang Yin, Dujuan Wang, Yanzhang Wang, and Yaochu Jin
Interpretability-Based Multimodal Convolutional Neural Networks for Skin Lesion Diagnosis
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (2021)
📄 Paper
- Pranav Rajpurkar, Jeremy Irvin, Robyn L Ball, Kaylie Zhu, Brandon Yang, Hershel Mehta, Tony Duan, Daisy Ding, Aarti Bagul, et al .
Deep learning for chest radiograph diagnosis: A retrospective comparison of the CheXNeXt algorithm to practicing radiologists
PLoS Medicine 15, 11 (2018)
📄 Paper
- Rory Sayres, Ankur Taly, Ehsan Rahimy, Katy Blumer, David Coz, Naama Hammel, Jonathan Krause, Arunachalam Narayanaswamy,
Zahra Rastegar, Derek Wu, et al.
Using a Deep Learning Algorithm and Integrated Gradients Explanation to Assist Grading for Diabetic Retinopathy
Ophthalmology 126, 4 (2019), 552–564
📄 Paper
- Tsung-Chieh Lin and Hsi-Chieh Lee
Covid-19 Chest Radiography Images Analysis Based on Integration of Image Preprocess, Guided Grad-CAM, Machine Learning and Risk Management
International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics (ICMHI), 281-288, 2020
📄 Paper
- Alina Lopatina, Stefan Ropele, Renat Sibgatulin, Jürgen R Reichenbach, and Daniel Güllmar
Investigation of Deep-Learning- Driven Identification of Multiple Sclerosis Patients Based on Susceptibility-Weighted Images Using Relevance Analysis
Frontiers in Neuroscience (2020), 1356
📄 Paper
- Isabel Rio-Torto, Kelwin Fernandes, and Luís Teixeira
Understanding the decisions of CNNs: An in-model approach
Pattern Recognition Letters 133 (2020), 373–380
📄 Paper
- Zizhao Zhang, Yuanpu Xie, Fuyong Xing, Mason McGough, and Lin Yang
MDNet: A Semantically and Visually Interpretable Medical Image Diagnosis Network
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 6428–6436, 2017
📄 Paper
- Baoyu Jing, Pengtao Xie, and Eric Xing
On the Automatic Generation of Medical Imaging Reports
56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2018
📄 Paper
- Xiaosong Wang, Yifan Peng, Le Lu, Zhiyong Lu, and Ronald Summers
TieNet: Text-Image Embedding Network for Common Thorax Disease Classification and Reporting in Chest X-rays
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 9049–9058, 2018
📄 Paper
- Christy Y Li, Xiaodan Liang, Zhiting Hu, and Eric P Xing
Hybrid Retrieval-Generation Reinforced Agent for Medical Image Report Generation
International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 1537–1547, 2018
📄 Paper
- Li Sun, Weipeng Wang, Jiyun Li, and Jingsheng Lin
Study on Medical Image Report Generation Based on Improved Encoding-Decoding Method
Intelligent Computing Theories and Application, 686–696, 2019
📄 Paper
- Catarina Barata, Jorge S Marques, and M Emre Celebi
Deep Attention Model for the Hierarchical Diagnosis of Skin Lesions
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2757–2765, 2019
📄 Paper
- Sonit Singh, Sarvnaz Karimi, Kevin Ho-Shon, and Len Hamey
From Chest X-Rays to Radiology Reports: A Multimodal Machine Learning Approach
Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 1–8, 2019
📄 Paper
- Hyebin Lee, Seong Tae Kim, and Yong Man Ro
Generation of Multimodal Justification Using Visual Word Constraint Model for Explainable Computer-Aided Diagnosis
Interpretability of Machine Intelligence in Medical Image Computing and Multimodal Learning for Clinical Decision Support, 21–29, 2019
📄 Paper
- William Gale, Luke Oakden-Rayner, Gustavo Carneiro, Andrew P Bradley, and Lyle J Palmer
Producing Radiologist-Quality Reports for Interpretable Deep Learning
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 1275–1279, 2019
📄 Paper
- Changchang Yin, Buyue Qian, Jishang Wei, Xiaoyu Li, Xianli Zhang, Yang Li, and Qinghua Zheng
Automatic Generation of Medical Imaging Diagnostic Report with Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Network
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 728–737, 2019
📄 Paper
- Guanxiong Liu, Tzu-Ming Harry Hsu, Matthew McDermott, Willie Boag, Wei-Hung Weng, Peter Szolovits, and Marzyeh Ghassemi
Clinically Accurate Chest X-Ray Report Generation
Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference, 249–269, 2019
📄 Paper
- Zhihong Chen, Yan Song, Tsung-Hui Chang, and Xiang Wan
Generating Radiology Reports via Memory-driven Transformer
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 1439–1449, 2020
📄 Paper
- Fenglin Liu, Xian Wu, Shen Ge, Wei Fan, and Yuexian Zou
Exploring and Distilling Posterior and Prior Knowledge for Radiology Report Generation
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 13753–13762, 2021
📄 Paper
- Fenglin Liu, Changchang Yin, Xian Wu, Shen Ge, Ping Zhang, and Xu Sun
Contrastive Attention for Automatic Chest X-ray Report Generation
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP, 269–280, 2021
📄 Paper
- Zhanyu Wang, Mingkang Tang, Lei Wang, Xiu Li, and Luping Zhou
A Medical Semantic-Assisted Transformer for Radiographic Report Generation
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention–MICCAI 2022: 25th International Conference, Singapore, September 18–22, 2022, Proceedings, Part III. 655–664
📄 Paper
- Zhanyu Wang, Lingqiao Liu, Lei Wang, and Luping Zhou
METransformer: Radiology Report Generation by Transformer with Multiple Learnable Expert Tokens
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 11558–11567, 2023
📄 Paper
- Zhanyu Wang, Lingqiao Liu, Lei Wang, and Luping Zhou
METransformer: Radiology Report Generation by Transformer with Multiple Learnable Expert Tokens
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 11558–11567, 2023
📄 Paper
- Alexander Selivanov, Oleg Y Rogov, Daniil Chesakov, Artem Shelmanov, Irina Fedulova, and Dmitry V Dylov
Medical image captioning via generative pretrained transformers
Scientific Reports 13, 1 (2023), 4171
📄 Paper
- Mara Graziani, Vincent Andrearczyk, Stéphane Marchand-Maillet, and Henning Müller
Concept attribution: Explaining CNN decisions to physicians
Computers in Biology and Medicine 123 (2020), 103865
📄 Paper
- Adriano Lucieri, Muhammad Naseer Bajwa, Stephan Alexander Braun, Muhammad Imran Malik, Andreas Dengel, and Sheraz Ahmed
ExAID: A Multimodal Explanation Framework for Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Skin Lesions
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (2022), 106620
📄 Paper
- Philipp Tschandl, Giuseppe Argenziano, Majid Razmara, and Jordan Yap
Diagnostic Accuracy of Content Based Dermatoscopic Image Retrieval with Deep Classification Features
British Journal of Dermatology 181, 1 (2019), 155–165
📄 Paper
- Jean-Baptiste Lamy, Boomadevi Sekar, Gilles Guezennec, Jacques Bouaud, and Brigitte Séroussi
Explainable artificial intelligence for breast cancer: A visual case-based reasoning approach
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 94 (2019), 42–53
📄 Paper
- Alina Jade Barnett, Fides Regina Schwartz, Chaofan Tao, Chaofan Chen, Yinhao Ren, Joseph Y Lo, and Cynthia Rudin
Interpretable Mammographic Image Classification using Case-Based Reasoning and Deep Learning
Workshop on Deep Learning, Case-Based Reasoning, and AutoML: Present and Future Synergies - IJCAI, 2021
📄 Paper
- Catarina Barata and Carlos Santiago
Improving the Explainability of Skin Cancer Diagnosis Using CBIR
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 550–559, 2021
📄 Paper
- Junho Kim, Minsu Kim, and Yong Man Ro
Interpretation of Lesional Detection via Counterfactual Generation
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 96–100, 2021
📄 Paper
- Kathryn Schutte, Olivier Moindrot, Paul Hérent, Jean-Baptiste Schiratti, and Simon Jégou
Using StyleGAN for Visual Interpretability of Deep Learning Models on Medical Images
Medical Imaging Meets NeurIPS Workshop, 2021
📄 Paper
- Sumedha Singla, Brian Pollack, Stephen Wallace, and Kayhan Batmanghelich
Explaining the Black-box Smoothly - A Counterfactual Approach
Medical Image Analysis 84 (2023), 102721
📄 Paper
- Eunji Kim, Siwon Kim, Minji Seo, and Sungroh Yoon
XProtoNet: Diagnosis in Chest Radiography with Global and Local Explanations
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 15719–15728, 2021
📄 Paper
- Gurmail Singh and Kin-Choong Yow
An Interpretable Deep Learning Model For Covid-19 Detection With Chest X-ray Images
IEEE Access 9 (2021), 85198–85208
📄 Paper
- Zhengqing Fang, Kun Kuang, Yuxiao Lin, Fei Wu, and Yu-Feng Yao
Concept-based Explanation for Fine-grained Images and Its Application in Infectious Keratitis Classification
ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 700–708, 2020
📄 Paper
- Mert Yuksekgonul, Maggie Wang, and James Zou
Post-hoc concept bottleneck models
arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.15480 (2022)
📄 Paper
- Siyuan Yan, Zhen Yu, Xuelin Zhang, Dwarikanath Mahapatra, Shekhar S Chandra, Monika Janda, Peter Soyer, and Zongyuan Ge
Towards Trustable Skin Cancer Diagnosis via Rewriting Model’s Decision
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 11568–11577, 2023
📄 Paper
- Cristiano Patrício, João C. Neves, and Luis F. Teixeira
Coherent Concept-based Explanations in Medical Image and Its Application to Skin Lesion Diagnosis
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 3799–3808, 2023
📄 Paper
- Ponkrshnan Thiagarajan, Pushkar Khairnar, and Susanta Ghosh
Explanation and Use of Uncertainty Obtained by Bayesian Neural Network Classifiers for Breast Histopathology Images
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 41, 4 (2021), 815–825
📄 Paper
- Mohammad Ehtasham Billah and Farrukh Javed
Bayesian Convolutional Neural Network-based Models for Diagnosis of Blood Cancer
Applied Artificial Intelligence (2022), 1–22
📄 Paper
- Mahesh Gour and Sweta Jain
Uncertainty-aware convolutional neural network for COVID-19 X-ray images classification
Computers in Biology and Medicine 140 (2022), 105047
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- Andrei Margeloiu, Nikola Simidjievski, Mateja Jamnik, and Adrian Weller
Improving Interpretability in Medical Imaging Diagnosis using Adversarial Training
Medical Imaging Meets NeurIPS Workshop, 2020
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