Improving breast cancer prediction through explainable artificial intelligence - A transdisciplinary approach

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has shown tremendous contributions in various applications like speech recognition, expert systems, computer vision, robotics, and gaming. machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) algorithms under AI address problems such as prediction, classification, and regression. AI has touched many domains. The results or the predictions generated by these algorithms are not easily accepted by the user. Especially, the Healthcare domain is facing a great challenge in accepting the results or the predictions with the concern, Are AI results reliable, correct, and ethical? Doctors or medical practitioners are not ready to treat patients based on results or suggestions generated by AI algorithms. Hence, a technology that can explain how the results returned by AI algorithms are trustworthy, transparent, and interpretable was strongly needed. This need has given rise to the latest technology-explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). With the use of XAI, all the predictions, classifications made by AI algorithms are explainable, auditable, comprehensive, validating, and socially acceptable. This paper discusses explaining the results of breast cancer prediction as a case study. The results show that such an explanation will build trust in the doctors and hence will increase the acceptance of the AI-based systems.