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ArticleDiagnostic pathology2025

Fostering trust and interpretability: integrating explainable AI (XAI) with machine learning for enhanced disease prediction and decision transparency.

Renuka Agrawal, Tawishi Gupta, Shaurya Gupta, Sakshi Chauhan, Prisha Patel, Safa Hamdare

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Article in Diagnostic pathology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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6 authors.

Renuka AgrawalDepartment of Computer Science, Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, Maharashtra, 412115, India. renuka.agrawal@sitpune.edu.in.
Tawishi GuptaDepartment of Computer Science, Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, Maharashtra, 412115, India.
Shaurya GuptaDepartment of Computer Science, Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, Maharashtra, 412115, India.
Sakshi ChauhanDepartment of Computer Science, Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, Maharashtra, 412115, India.
Prisha PatelDepartment of Computer Science, Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, Maharashtra, 412115, India.
Safa HamdareDepartment of Computer Science, Nottingham Trent University, College Drive, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, NG11 8NS, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medical healthcare has advanced substantially due to advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques for early disease detection alongside support for clinical decisions. However, a gap exists in widespread adoption of results of these algorithms by public due to black box nature of models. The undisclosed nature of these systems creates fundamental obstacles within medical sectors that handle crucial cases because medical practitioners needs to understand the reasoning behind the outcome of a particular disease. A hybrid Machine Learning (ML) framework integrating Explainable AI (XAI) strategies that will improve both predictive performance and interpretability is explored in proposed work. The system leverages Decision Trees, Naive Bayes, Random Forests and XGBoost algorithms to predict the medical condition risks of Diabetes, Anaemia, Thalassemia, Heart Disease, Thrombocytopenia within its framework. SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) together with LIME (Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations) adds functionality to the proposed system by displaying important features contributing to each prediction. The framework upholds an accuracy of 99.2% besides the ability to provide understandable explanations for interpretation of model outputs. The performance combined with interpretability from the framework enables clinical practitioners to make decisions through an understanding of AI-generated outputs thereby reducing distrust in AI-driven healthcare.

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Artificial IntelligenceClinical Decision-MakingMachine LearningAlgorithmsBayes TheoremHumansTrustExplainable artificial intelligence (XAI)Healthcare predictionLocal interpretable model agnostic explanations (LIME)Machine learning (ML)Random forestSHapley additive exPlanations (SHAP)XGBoost

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PMID40999511
PMCPMC12465982

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