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Exploring new possibilities for case based explanation of artificial neural network ensembles

Green, Michael LU ; Ekelund, Ulf LU orcid ; Edenbrandt, Lars LU ; Björk, Jonas LU ; Lundager Hansen, Jakob LU and Ohlsson, Mattias LU orcid (2009) In Neural Networks 22(1). p.75-81
Abstract
Artificial neural network (ANN) ensembles have long suffered from a lack of interpretability. This has severely limited the practical usability of ANNs in settings where an erroneous decision can be disastrous. Several attempts have been made to alleviate this problem. Many of them are based on decomposing the decision boundary of the ANN into a set of rules. We explore and compare a set of new methods for this explanation process on two artificial data sets (Monks 1 and 3), and one acute coronary syndrome data set consisting of 861 electrocardiograms (ECG) collected retrospectively at the emergency department at Lund University Hospital. The algorithms managed to extract good explanations in more than 84% of the cases. More to the point,... (More)
Artificial neural network (ANN) ensembles have long suffered from a lack of interpretability. This has severely limited the practical usability of ANNs in settings where an erroneous decision can be disastrous. Several attempts have been made to alleviate this problem. Many of them are based on decomposing the decision boundary of the ANN into a set of rules. We explore and compare a set of new methods for this explanation process on two artificial data sets (Monks 1 and 3), and one acute coronary syndrome data set consisting of 861 electrocardiograms (ECG) collected retrospectively at the emergency department at Lund University Hospital. The algorithms managed to extract good explanations in more than 84% of the cases. More to the point, the best method provided 99% and 91% good explanations in Monks data 1 and 3 respectively. Also there was a significant overlap between the algorithms. Furthermore, when explaining a given ECG, the overlap between this method and one of the physicians was the same as the one between the two physicians in this study. Still the physicians were significantly, p-value <0.001, more similar to each other than to any of the methods. The algorithms have the potential to be used as an explanatory aid when using ANN ensembles in clinical decision support systems. (Less)
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Neural Network Ensembles, Acute Coronary Syndrome, Case-Based Explanation, Sensitivity Analysis
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Neural Networks
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22
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75 - 81
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Elsevier
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1879-2782
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10.1016/j.neunet.2008.09.014
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AIR Lund Chest pain - More efficient and equal emergency care with advanced medical decision support tools
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English
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