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Explainable Artificial Intelligence to Detect Breast Cancer: A Qualitative Case-Based Visual Interpretability Approach

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Artificial Intelligence in Neuroscience: Affective Analysis and Health Applications (IWINAC 2022)

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Nowadays, research in the field of artificial intelligence is focusing on the explainability of the developed algorithms, mainly neural networks. This trend is known as XAI and brings certain advantages such as increased confidence in the decision-making process, improved capacity for error analysis, verification of results and possibility of model refinement, among others. In this work we have focused on interpreting the predictions of recently developed deep learning models through different visualization techniques. The use case we introduce is the detection of breast cancer through the classification of mammographies, since the medical field is widely benefited by the contributions of XAI methods. Furthermore, the target neural networks are based on recent and poorly explored architectures: EfficientNet, designed to improve the performance of convolutional networks.

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    http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/.

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    Instead of a division into three subsets, only two subsets are used, one of which is used both for validation during training and for testing.

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    https://opencv.org.

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    https://paperswithcode.com/sota/image-classification-on-mnist.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge research project PID2019- 110686RB-I00 of the State Research Program Oriented to the Challenges of Society.

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Rodriguez-Sampaio, M., Rincón, M., Valladares-Rodriguez, S., Bachiller-Mayoral, M. (2022). Explainable Artificial Intelligence to Detect Breast Cancer: A Qualitative Case-Based Visual Interpretability Approach. In: Ferrández Vicente, J.M., Álvarez-Sánchez, J.R., de la Paz López, F., Adeli, H. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Neuroscience: Affective Analysis and Health Applications. IWINAC 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13258. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06242-1_55

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