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The Explainable Analytics for Exploring Misdiagnoses

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Current AI-driven methods in healthcare show significant limitations in addressing misdiagnoses, often leading to serious consequences. This work highlights the inadequacy of state-of-the-art AI in managing diagnostic errors through experiments with public real-world datasets, namely “Bone Marrow Transplant: Children” and “Breast Cancer Wisconsin (Original)”. We propose two novel scoring measures—Local-score and Global-score—to enhance the accuracy of Transparent Classification (TC). Experimental results indicate that Global-score improves recall but may reduce precision, whereas Local-score slightly lowers recall for better precision. These findings suggest that both Local-score and Global-score can effectively identify misdiagnoses, marking a substantial improvement over traditional AI methods. This research offers a new perspective in employing explainable AI to address the challenges of misdiagnoses, thereby improving patient care and medical diagnostic accuracy.

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    ICMHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 8th International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics
    May 2024
    349 pages
    ISBN:9798400716874
    DOI:10.1145/3673971
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    1. Explainable artificial intelligence
    2. data mining
    3. misjudgments

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