提出四维度评估AI解释质量的框架,助力医疗AI可信性提升。
Evaluating Explainability: A Framework for Systematic Assessment and Reporting of Explainable AI Features
- 从一致性、合理性、保真度和实用性四方面评估解释质量。
- 在乳腺病变检测任务中验证框架有效性,支持临床场景评估。
- 提供可复用评分卡,推动AI医疗设备开发与评价标准化。
解释性功能旨在揭示AI模型内部机制,但现有评估方法不足。本文提出一套系统化评估与报告可解释AI功能的框架,包含四个核心标准:1)一致性,衡量相似输入下解释的稳定性;2)合理性,评估解释与真实情况的接近程度;3)保真度,检验解释与模型内部机制的一致性;4)实用性,考察解释对任务性能的影响。我们还开发了配套的可解释性方法评分卡,完整描述并评估相关算法。以合成乳腺钼靶图像中的病变检测为例,使用Ablation CAM与Eigen CAM对解释热图进行评估,前三项标准应用于临床相关场景。该框架为评估AI解释质量提供了可操作的标准,旨在引发对解释价值的讨论,促进医疗AI设备的研发与评价改进。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Explainability features are intended to provide insight into the internal mechanisms of an AI device, but there is a lack of evaluation techniques for assessing the quality of provided explanations. We propose a framework to assess and report explainable AI features. Our evaluation framework for AI explainability is based on four criteria: 1) Consistency quantifies the variability of explanations to similar inputs, 2) Plausibility estimates how close the explanation is to the ground truth, 3) Fidelity assesses the alignment between the explanation and the model internal mechanisms, and 4) Usefulness evaluates the impact on task performance of the explanation. Finally, we developed a scorecard for AI explainability methods that serves as a complete description and evaluation to accompany this type of algorithm. We describe these four criteria and give examples on how they can be evaluated. As a case study, we use Ablation CAM and Eigen CAM to illustrate the evaluation of explanation heatmaps on the detection of breast lesions on synthetic mammographies. The first three criteria are evaluated for clinically-relevant scenarios. Our proposed framework establishes criteria through which the quality of explanations provided by AI models can be evaluated. We intend for our framework to spark a dialogue regarding the value provided by explainability features and help improve the development and evaluation of AI-based medical devices.
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