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Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of Explainable Deep Learning Methods for Ophthalmic Diagnosis

Amitojdeep Singh,J. Balaji,Varadharajan Jayakumar,M. Rasheed,R. Raman,V. Lakshminarayanan

Published 2020 in arXiv.org

ABSTRACT

Background: The lack of explanations for the decisions made by algorithms such as deep learning has hampered their acceptance by the clinical community despite highly accurate results on multiple problems. Recently, attribution methods have emerged for explaining deep learning models, and they have been tested on medical imaging problems. The performance of attribution methods is compared on standard machine learning datasets and not on medical images. In this study, we perform a comparative analysis to determine the most suitable explainability method for retinal OCT diagnosis. Methods: A commonly used deep learning model known as Inception v3 was trained to diagnose 3 retinal diseases - choroidal neovascularization (CNV), diabetic macular edema (DME), and drusen. The explanations from 13 different attribution methods were rated by a panel of 14 clinicians for clinical significance. Feedback was obtained from the clinicians regarding the current and future scope of such methods. Results: An attribution method based on a Taylor series expansion, called Deep Taylor was rated the highest by clinicians with a median rating of 3.85/5. It was followed by two other attribution methods, Guided backpropagation and SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations). Conclusion: Explanations of deep learning models can make them more transparent for clinical diagnosis. This study compared different explanations methods in the context of retinal OCT diagnosis and found that the best performing method may not be the one considered best for other deep learning tasks. Overall, there was a high degree of acceptance from the clinicians surveyed in the study. Keywords: explainable AI, deep learning, machine learning, image processing, Optical coherence tomography, retina, Diabetic macular edema, Choroidal Neovascularization, Drusen

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2020

  • Venue

    arXiv.org

  • Publication date

    2020-09-26

  • Fields of study

    Medicine, Computer Science, Engineering

  • Identifiers
    arXiv 2009.12648
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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