arXiv:2503.20758cs.LGcs.CV2025-03被引 5

改进LIME的不稳定性,提升医学影像解释的精准与一致

MindfulLIME: A Stable Solution for Explanations of Machine Learning Models with Enhanced Localization Precision -- A Medical Image Case Study

  • 用图剪枝和不确定性采样生成有目的的样本,替代随机扰动
  • 在胸部X光数据集上实现100%稳定解释,定位精度更高
  • 适合医疗影像等对可解释性要求高的场景

确保机器学习决策透明在医疗、金融、司法等敏感领域至关重要。尽管如此,如局部可解释模型无关解释(LIME)等流行可解释算法常因扰动样本的随机生成而产生不稳定解释。随机扰动引入微小变化或噪声,导致解释结果不一致,轻微样本差异即显著影响解释,削弱信任并阻碍可解释模型应用。为此,本文提出MindfulLIME,通过基于图的剪枝算法与不确定性采样,智能生成有目的的样本,显著提升视觉解释的一致性。在广泛使用的胸部X光数据集上的实验表明,MindfulLIME在相同条件下实现100%可靠解释成功率。同时,其解释定位精度优于LIME,缩小了生成解释与真实标注之间的距离。我们还评估了多种分割算法与样本数量组合,结果表明在不同设置下,MindfulLIME均以更少高质样本、合理时间完成推理,表现出卓越的稳定性、质量与效率。该方法有效解决图像数据中LIME的稳定性缺陷,增强了特定医疗影像应用中模型的可信度与可解释性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Ensuring transparency in machine learning decisions is critically important, especially in sensitive sectors such as healthcare, finance, and justice. Despite this, some popular explainable algorithms, such as Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations (LIME), often produce unstable explanations due to the random generation of perturbed samples. Random perturbation introduces small changes or noise to modified instances of the original data, leading to inconsistent explanations. Even slight variations in the generated samples significantly affect the explanations provided by such models, undermining trust and hindering the adoption of interpretable models. To address this challenge, we propose MindfulLIME, a novel algorithm that intelligently generates purposive samples using a graph-based pruning algorithm and uncertainty sampling. MindfulLIME substantially improves the consistency of visual explanations compared to random sampling approaches. Our experimental evaluation, conducted on a widely recognized chest X-ray dataset, confirms MindfulLIME's stability with a 100% success rate in delivering reliable explanations under identical conditions. Additionally, MindfulLIME improves the localization precision of visual explanations by reducing the distance between the generated explanations and the actual local annotations compared to LIME. We also performed comprehensive experiments considering various segmentation algorithms and sample numbers, focusing on stability, quality, and efficiency. The results demonstrate the outstanding performance of MindfulLIME across different segmentation settings, generating fewer high-quality samples within a reasonable processing time. By addressing the stability limitations of LIME in image data, MindfulLIME enhances the trustworthiness and interpretability of machine learning models in specific medical imaging applications, a critical domain.

可解释性医学影像LIME稳定性

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