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Explaining artificial neural network ensembles: A case study with electrocardiograms from chest pain patients

Green, Michael LU ; Ekelund, Ulf LU orcid ; Edenbrandt, Lars LU ; Björk, Jonas LU ; Lundager Hansen, Jakob LU and Ohlsson, Mattias LU orcid (2008) International Conference on Machine Learning
Abstract
Artificial neural networks is one of the most commonly used machine learning algorithms in medical applications. However, they are still not used in practice in the clinics partly due to their lack of explanatory capacity. We compare two case-based explanation methods to two trained physicians on analysis of electrocardiogram (ECG) data from patients with a suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The median overlaps of the top 5 selected features between the two physicians, and a given physician and a method, were initially low. Using a correlation analysis of the features the median overlap increased to values typically in the range 3-4. In conclusion, both our case-based methods generate explanations similar to those of trained expert... (More)
Artificial neural networks is one of the most commonly used machine learning algorithms in medical applications. However, they are still not used in practice in the clinics partly due to their lack of explanatory capacity. We compare two case-based explanation methods to two trained physicians on analysis of electrocardiogram (ECG) data from patients with a suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The median overlaps of the top 5 selected features between the two physicians, and a given physician and a method, were initially low. Using a correlation analysis of the features the median overlap increased to values typically in the range 3-4. In conclusion, both our case-based methods generate explanations similar to those of trained expert physicians on the problem of diagnosing ACS from ECG data. (Less)
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acute coronary syndrome, case-based explanation, rule extraction, neural network ensembles
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Proceedings of the ICML/UAI/COLT 2008 Workshop on Machine Learning for Health-Care Applications
editor
Hauskrecht, Milos
pages
8 pages
conference name
International Conference on Machine Learning
conference location
Helsinki, Finland
conference dates
2008-07-05 - 2008-07-09
project
AIR Lund Chest pain - More efficient and equal emergency care with advanced medical decision support tools
language
English
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yes
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  abstract     = {{Artificial neural networks is one of the most commonly used machine learning algorithms in medical applications. However, they are still not used in practice in the clinics partly due to their lack of explanatory capacity. We compare two case-based explanation methods to two trained physicians on analysis of electrocardiogram (ECG) data from patients with a suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The median overlaps of the top 5 selected features between the two physicians, and a given physician and a method, were initially low. Using a correlation analysis of the features the median overlap increased to values typically in the range 3-4. In conclusion, both our case-based methods generate explanations similar to those of trained expert physicians on the problem of diagnosing ACS from ECG data.}},
  author       = {{Green, Michael and Ekelund, Ulf and Edenbrandt, Lars and Björk, Jonas and Lundager Hansen, Jakob and Ohlsson, Mattias}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of the ICML/UAI/COLT 2008 Workshop on Machine Learning for Health-Care Applications}},
  editor       = {{Hauskrecht, Milos}},
  keywords     = {{acute coronary syndrome; case-based explanation; rule extraction; neural network ensembles}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  title        = {{Explaining artificial neural network ensembles: A case study with electrocardiograms from chest pain patients}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/6057850/1173477.pdf}},
  year         = {{2008}},
}