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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2024

The Promise of Explainable AI in Digital Health for Precision Medicine: A Systematic Review.

Ben Allen

Open access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
31citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 69 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Monitoring and evaluation instruments of individual health in community settings: a scoping review.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2026
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  2. Beyond one-size-fits-all: mapping information-seeking and decision-making pathways in cancer care.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026
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  20. PON-P3: Accurate Prediction of Pathogenicity of Amino Acid Substitutions.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ben AllenDepartment of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.
University of Kansas · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review synthesizes the literature on explaining machine-learning models for digital health data in precision medicine. As healthcare increasingly tailors treatments to individual characteristics, the integration of artificial intelligence with digital health data becomes crucial. Leveraging a topic-modeling approach, this paper distills the key themes of 27 journal articles. We included peer-reviewed journal articles written in English, with no time constraints on the search. A Google Scholar search, conducted up to 19 September 2023, yielded 27 journal articles. Through a topic-modeling approach, the identified topics encompassed optimizing patient healthcare through data-driven medicine, predictive modeling with data and algorithms, predicting diseases with deep learning of biomedical data, and machine learning in medicine. This review delves into specific applications of explainable artificial intelligence, emphasizing its role in fostering transparency, accountability, and trust within the healthcare domain. Our review highlights the necessity for further development and validation of explanation methods to advance precision healthcare delivery.

Indexed as

digital healthexplainable artificial intelligencemachine learningprecision medicine

Identifiers

PMID38541019
PMCPMC10971237
OpenAlexW4392357343

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.