Paper ID: 2406.10213

Selecting Interpretability Techniques for Healthcare Machine Learning models

Daniel Sierra-Botero, Ana Molina-Taborda, Mario S. Valdés-Tresanco, Alejandro Hernández-Arango, Leonardo Espinosa-Leal, Alexander Karpenko, Olga Lopez-Acevedo

In healthcare there is a pursuit for employing interpretable algorithms to assist healthcare professionals in several decision scenarios. Following the Predictive, Descriptive and Relevant (PDR) framework, the definition of interpretable machine learning as a machine-learning model that explicitly and in a simple frame determines relationships either contained in data or learned by the model that are relevant for its functioning and the categorization of models by post-hoc, acquiring interpretability after training, or model-based, being intrinsically embedded in the algorithm design. We overview a selection of eight algorithms, both post-hoc and model-based, that can be used for such purposes.

Submitted: Jun 14, 2024