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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,517 Views
19 Pages

An Efficient Explainability of Deep Models on Medical Images

  • Salim Khiat,
  • Sidi Ahmed Mahmoudi,
  • Sédrick Stassin,
  • Lillia Boukerroui and ,
  • Besma Senaï and
  • Saïd Mahmoudi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 April 2025

Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized many fields and the medical field is no exception. Thanks to technological advancements and the emergence of Deep Learning (DL) techniques AI has brought new possibilities and significant impr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning in Medical Signal and Image Processing (3rd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,736 Views
23 Pages

Optimizing Local Explainability in Robotic Grasp Failure Prediction

  • Cagla Acun,
  • Ali Ashary,
  • Dan O. Popa and
  • Olfa Nasraoui

This paper presents a local explainability mechanism for robotic grasp failure prediction that enhances machine learning transparency at the instance level. Building upon pre hoc explainability concepts, we develop a neighborhood-based optimization a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Robotics: From Technologies to Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,056 Views
20 Pages

Explainability of Automated Fact Verification Systems: A Comprehensive Review

  • Manju Vallayil,
  • Parma Nand,
  • Wei Qi Yan and
  • Héctor Allende-Cid

23 November 2023

The rapid growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has led to considerable progress in Automated Fact Verification (AFV). This process involves collecting evidence for a statement, assessing its relevance, and predicting its accuracy. Recently, researc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Explainable AI (XAI) for Information Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,954 Views
22 Pages

Protocol for Evaluating Explainability in Actuarial Models

  • Catalina Lozano-Murcia,
  • Francisco P. Romero and
  • Mᵃ Concepción Gonzalez-Ramos

This paper explores the use of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) techniques in actuarial science to address the opacity of advanced machine learning models in financial contexts. While technological advancements have enhanced actuarial models...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
134 Views
16 Pages

19 October 2026

Although machine learning-based forecasting models often function as opaque black boxes, explainability methods provide the essential tools required to foster trust in deep learning systems, optimize computational resources, and enhance model accurac...

(This article belongs to the Topic Explainable AI (XAI) in Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,872 Views
35 Pages

Verified Language Processing with Hybrid Explainability

  • Oliver Robert Fox,
  • Giacomo Bergami and
  • Graham Morgan

31 August 2025

The volume and diversity of digital information have led to a growing reliance on Machine Learning (ML) techniques, such as Natural Language Processing (NLP), for interpreting and accessing appropriate data. While vector and graph embeddings represen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Theory and Applications in Natural Language Processing, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
23,109 Views
34 Pages

An increasing demand for model explainability has accompanied the widespread adoption of transformers in various fields of applications. In this paper, we conduct a survey of the existing literature on the explainability of transformers. We provide a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning and Explainable Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
15,975 Views
13 Pages

Metrics, Explainability and the European AI Act Proposal

  • Francesco Sovrano,
  • Salvatore Sapienza,
  • Monica Palmirani and
  • Fabio Vitali

18 February 2022

On 21 April 2021, the European Commission proposed the first legal framework on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to address the risks posed by this emerging method of computation. The Commission proposed a Regulation known as the AI Act. The proposed AI...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Law)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,733 Views
28 Pages

Contrastive Steering Vectors for Autoencoder Explainability

  • José Guillermo González Mora,
  • Hiram Ponce and
  • Lourdes Martínez-Villaseñor

10 September 2025

Generative models, particularly autoencoders, often function as black boxes, making it challenging for non-expert users to effectively control the generation process and understand how inputs affect outputs. Existing methods for improving interpretab...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Concepts, Techniques, Analytics and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,256 Views
21 Pages

DERI1000: A New Benchmark for Dataset Explainability Readiness

  • Andrej Pisarcik,
  • Robert Hudec and
  • Roberta Hlavata

8 December 2025

Deep learning models are increasingly evaluated not only for predictive accuracy but also for their robustness, interpretability, and data quality dependencies. However, current benchmarks largely isolate these dimensions, lacking a unified evaluatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Explainable and Trustworthy AI in Health and Biology: Enabling Transparent and Actionable Decision-Making)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
14,242 Views
83 Pages

18 July 2025

Explainability and interpretability have emerged as essential considerations in machine learning, particularly as models become more complex and integral to a wide range of applications. In response to increasing concerns over opaque “black-box...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning for Pattern Recognition (3rd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
914 Views
14 Pages

Towards HCXAI: Explainability Preferences of Healthcare Professionals

  • Mishell Cadena-Yanez,
  • Angela Bernardini and
  • Marisol Gómez

2 July 2026

This study examined how healthcare professionals (HCP) perceive and trust AI in clinical settings, and what kinds of explanations they need to use it effectively. Using interviews with six HCPsand a questionnaire (N=41), the findings show that trust...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human–AI Collaboration and Augmented Intelligence: Bridging Theory, Design and Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
10,788 Views
25 Pages

This article reflects on explainability in the context of medical artificial intelligence (AI) applications, focusing on AI-based clinical decision support systems (CDSS). After introducing the concept of explainability in AI and providing a short ov...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosignal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,858 Views
16 Pages

Explainability features are intended to provide insight into the internal mechanisms of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) device, but there is a lack of evaluation techniques for assessing the quality of provided explanations. We propose a framework to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Medical Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,784 Views
20 Pages

Verifying Machine Learning Interpretability and Explainability Requirements Through Provenance

  • Lynn Vonderhaar,
  • Juan Couder,
  • Tyler Thomas Procko,
  • Eva Lueddeke and ,
  • Daryela Cisneros and
  • Omar Ochoa
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 February 2026

Machine learning (ML) engineering increasingly incorporates principles from software and requirements engineering to improve development rigor; however, key non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as interpretability and explainability remain difficu...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
592 Views
15 Pages

This paper investigates adversarial robustness and explainability in AI-generated face detection through the Robust and Explainable Detection (RED) framework. RED unifies CNN and Vision Transformer (ViT) backbones with FGSM/PGD adversarial training a...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 15th International Scientific Conference TechSys 2026—Engineering, Technologies and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,129 Views
13 Pages

Privacy and Explainability: The Effects of Data Protection on Shapley Values

  • Aso Bozorgpanah,
  • Vicenç Torra and
  • Laya Aliahmadipour

There is an increasing need to provide explainability for machine learning models. There are different alternatives to provide explainability, for example, local and global methods. One of the approaches is based on Shapley values. Privacy is another...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Technologies—Recent Advances and Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,260 Views
13 Pages

7 April 2023

In recent years, as machine learning models have become larger and more complex, it has become both more difficult and more important to be able to explain and interpret the results of those models, both to prevent model errors and to inspire confide...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,144 Views
29 Pages

Decision tree ensembles, such as Random Forests and Gradient Boosting Machines, achieve high predictive accuracy but often suffer from limited transparency due to their structural complexity. Due to this lack, interpretability challenges arise in dom...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surveys in Information Systems and Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,466 Views
14 Pages

13 May 2023

Partial Information Decomposition (PID) is a body of work within information theory that allows one to quantify the information that several random variables provide about another random variable, either individually (unique information), redundantly...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
576 Views
33 Pages

Beyond Transparency: Reframing Ethical Explainability in Human–AI Teams

  • Hoda Parvaneh Shirazi,
  • Ahmed Al-Asfour,
  • Sami El Ahmadie and
  • Sunduz Yilmaz

3 September 2026

Purpose: Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) is increasingly promoted as a mechanism for improving transparency, trust, and accountability in AI-assisted decision-making. However, its ethical value remains uncertain when AI systems are embedded...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human-AI (H-AI) Teams: Designing for Human-AI Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,569 Views
28 Pages

Testing Explainability of Chain of Thought for Large Language Models

  • Hao Chen,
  • Zhuang Zhao,
  • Ziqi Shuai and
  • Jifeng Xuan

24 March 2026

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated superior abilities in complex tasks such as text generation, reasoning, and question answering. However, the explainability of LLMs becomes weak as the parameters and complexity of LLMs increase. Chains...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Computing in Software Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
1,921 Views
13 Pages

Synthesizing Explainability Across Multiple ML Models for Structured Data

  • Emir Veledar,
  • Lili Zhou,
  • Omar Veledar,
  • Hannah Gardener and ,
  • Carolina M. Gutierrez,
  • Jose G. Romano and
  • Tatjana Rundek
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 June 2025

Explainable Machine Learning (XML) in high-stakes domains demands reproducible methods to aggregate feature importance across multiple models applied to the same structured dataset. We propose the Weighted Importance Score and Frequency Count (WISFC)...

(This article belongs to the Section Databases and Data Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,987 Views
26 Pages

Towards Automated Semantic Explainability of Multimedia Feature Graphs

  • Stefan Wagenpfeil,
  • Paul Mc Kevitt and
  • Matthias Hemmje

2 December 2021

Multimedia feature graphs are employed to represent features of images, video, audio, or text. Various techniques exist to extract such features from multimedia objects. In this paper, we describe the extension of such a feature graph to represent th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sentiment Analysis and Affective Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,647 Views
15 Pages

In clinical practice, every decision should be reliable and explained to the stakeholders. The high accuracy of deep learning (DL) models pose a great advantage, but the fact that they function as black-boxes hinders their clinical applications. Henc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,063 Views
20 Pages

30 January 2026

Deep learning models for three-dimensional (3D) data are increasingly used in domains such as medical imaging, object recognition, and robotics. At the same time, the use of AI in these domains is increasing, while, due to their black-box nature, the...

(This article belongs to the Section AI in Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
822 Views
29 Pages

Explainability as a Structural Property: An Empirical Analysis of Rashomon Sets and Pareto Fronts

  • Roberto Stevens Porto Solano,
  • Antonio Berlanga de Jesús,
  • José M. Molina and
  • Yair Rivera Julio

4 May 2026

While most current work on interpretable models has centered on post hoc explainability of individual predictive models, the structure of the hypothesis space from which such models are drawn has been largely neglected. This paper proposes a contrast...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Explainable AI: Advances in Interpretability Algorithms and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,847 Views
29 Pages

Explainability and Transparency of Classifiers for Air-Handling Unit Faults Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

  • Molika Meas,
  • Ram Machlev,
  • Ahmet Kose,
  • Aleksei Tepljakov and ,
  • Lauri Loo,
  • Yoash Levron,
  • Eduard Petlenkov and
  • Juri Belikov
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

23 August 2022

In recent years, explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) techniques have been developed to improve the explainability, trust and transparency of machine learning models. This work presents a method that explains the outputs of an air-handling unit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Control and Digital Twins for Industry 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,158 Views
29 Pages

30 September 2024

Natural language inference (NLI) is a fundamental and quite challenging task in natural language processing, requiring efficient methods that are able to determine whether given hypotheses derive from given premises. In this paper, we apply explainab...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Artificial Intelligence Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,327 Views
26 Pages

17 May 2023

With the massive, worldwide, smart metering roll-out, both energy suppliers and users are starting to tap into the potential of higher resolution energy readings for accurate billing, improved demand response, improved tariffs better tuned to users a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Practical Nonintrusive Load Monitoring Approaches with Meaningful Performance Evaluation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,727 Views
23 Pages

2 October 2025

The increasing prevalence of Arabic text in digital media offers significant potential for sentiment analysis. However, challenges such as linguistic complexity and limited resources make Arabic sentiment analysis (ASA) particularly difficult. In add...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,326 Views
19 Pages

Defining an Ethical Explainability Metric for Measuring AI Trustworthiness in Connected Healthcare Systems

  • Parul Naib,
  • Jaeyoung Park,
  • Paniz Abedin,
  • Christian King and
  • Varadraj Gurupur

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethically in connected healthcare systems requires a quantifiable framework that measures not only outcome correctness, but also the clarity, auditability, and ethical acceptability of model explanations in hig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things Security: Shaping the Future of Secure Connected Systems)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,016 Views
34 Pages

4 June 2026

This systematic literature review, guided by Kitchenham and Charters and following PRISMA 2020, analyzes explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) approaches for multiclass classification models, with an emphasis on explaining class differentiation a...

(This article belongs to the Topic Theories, Techniques, and Real-World Applications for Advancing Explainable AI)
  • Review
  • Open Access
146 Citations
24,154 Views
42 Pages

21 October 2022

The emerging field of eXplainable AI (XAI) in the medical domain is considered to be of utmost importance. Meanwhile, incorporating explanations in the medical domain with respect to legal and ethical AI is necessary to understand detailed decisions,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning in Sensors and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,212 Views
27 Pages

Using Segmentation to Boost Classification Performance and Explainability in CapsNets

  • Dominik Vranay,
  • Maroš Hliboký,
  • László Kovács and
  • Peter Sinčák

In this paper, we present Combined-CapsNet (C-CapsNet), a novel approach aimed at enhancing the performance and explainability of Capsule Neural Networks (CapsNets) in image classification tasks. Our method involves the integration of segmentation ma...

(This article belongs to the Section Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,980 Views
20 Pages

TorchEsegeta: Framework for Interpretability and Explainability of Image-Based Deep Learning Models

  • Soumick Chatterjee,
  • Arnab Das,
  • Chirag Mandal,
  • Budhaditya Mukhopadhyay and ,
  • Manish Vipinraj,
  • Aniruddh Shukla,
  • Rajatha Nagaraja Rao,
  • Chompunuch Sarasaen,
  • Oliver Speck and
  • Andreas Nürnberger
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

10 February 2022

Clinicians are often very sceptical about applying automatic image processing approaches, especially deep learning-based methods, in practice. One main reason for this is the black-box nature of these approaches and the inherent problem of missing in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI))
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
15,782 Views
43 Pages

Explainability and Evaluation of Vision Transformers: An In-Depth Experimental Study

  • Sédrick Stassin,
  • Valentin Corduant,
  • Sidi Ahmed Mahmoudi and
  • Xavier Siebert

30 December 2023

In the era of artificial intelligence (AI), the deployment of intelligent systems for autonomous decision making has surged across diverse fields. However, the widespread adoption of AI technology is hindered by the risks associated with ceding contr...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,097 Views
23 Pages

Financial fraud and money laundering continue to challenge financial stability and regulatory oversight, motivating the widespread adoption of machine learning models for transaction monitoring. Although ensemble models such as Random Forest and XGBo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Privacy-Preserving and Trustworthy AI for Industrial 4.0 and Beyond)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,577 Views
26 Pages

16 September 2025

Background/Objectives: Monkeypox is a zoonotic virus that presents with smallpox-like symptoms, making visual diagnosis challenging due to overlap with other dermatological conditions. Existing AI-based studies on monkeypox classification have largel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Explainable Machine Learning in Clinical Diagnostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,292 Views
24 Pages

Automated Sensor Node Malicious Activity Detection with Explainability Analysis

  • Md Zubair,
  • Helge Janicke,
  • Ahmad Mohsin,
  • Leandros Maglaras and
  • Iqbal H. Sarker

7 June 2024

Cybersecurity has become a major concern in the modern world due to our heavy reliance on cyber systems. Advanced automated systems utilize many sensors for intelligent decision-making, and any malicious activity of these sensors could potentially le...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs))
  • Article
  • Open Access
392 Citations
21,603 Views
17 Pages

Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME) is a popular technique used to increase the interpretability and explainability of black box Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. LIME typically creates an explanation for a single prediction by any...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI))
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,533 Views
38 Pages

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have significantly advanced machine perception and reasoning; however, their lack of transparency in decision-making continues to pose a major challenge, particularly in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, finance, and...

(This article belongs to the Section Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,116 Views
32 Pages

Towards Global Explainability of Artificial Intelligence Agent Tactics in Close Air Combat

  • Emre Saldiran,
  • Mehmet Hasanzade,
  • Gokhan Inalhan and
  • Antonios Tsourdos

In this paper, we explore the development of an explainability system for air combat agents trained with reinforcement learning, thus addressing a crucial need in the dynamic and complex realm of air combat. The safety-critical nature of air combat d...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
631 Views
18 Pages

On Vision Transformer Explainability for Personal Protective Equipment Detection: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis

  • Miriam Di Renzo,
  • Filomena Niro,
  • Patrizia Agnello,
  • Marta Petyx and ,
  • Fabio Martinelli,
  • Mario Cesarelli,
  • Antonella Santone and
  • Francesco Mercaldo
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

The safety of workers in industrial settings is ensured through the correct use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). The use of such equipment can be monitored using Deep Learning (DL). Federated Machine Learning (FML) is a technique that can be u...

(This article belongs to the Section AI in Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,036 Views
29 Pages

28 December 2024

This study aims to investigate the impact of ionospheric models on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning and proposes an ionospheric prediction method based on a Transformer deep learning model. We construct a Transformer-based deep l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Insights in GNSS Remote Sensing for Ionosphere Monitoring and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,660 Views
18 Pages

4 July 2025

One of the main issues with paragangliomas and pheochromocytomas is that these tumors have up to a 20% rate of metastatic disease, which cannot be reliably predicted. While machine learning models hold great promise for enhancing predictive accuracy,...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,650 Views
27 Pages

24 September 2024

In this study, we present a new approach that combines multiple Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) architectures with a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) framework designed for sexism detection in text at a granular level...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data and Text Mining: New Approaches, Achievements and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
426 Views
23 Pages

16 July 2026

Deep learning methods have exemplified performance in various dental image segmentation tasks. However, their interpretability inadequacy remains a hindrance to clinical adoption. This study introduces a quantitative explainability-driven evaluation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Medical Image Analysis for Computer-Aided Diagnosis and Therapy)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,009 Views
32 Pages

12 January 2026

Explainability in deep learning (XDL) for healthcare is increasingly portrayed as essential for addressing the “black box” problem in clinical artificial intelligence. However, this universal transparency mandate may create unintended con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Biomedicine and Medical Informatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,280 Views
20 Pages

State-of-the-Art Explainability Methods with Focus on Visual Analytics Showcased by Glioma Classification

  • Milot Gashi,
  • Matej Vuković,
  • Nikolina Jekic,
  • Stefan Thalmann and ,
  • Andreas Holzinger,
  • Claire Jean-Quartier and
  • Fleur Jeanquartier
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

This study aims to reflect on a list of libraries providing decision support to AI models. The goal is to assist in finding suitable libraries that support visual explainability and interpretability of the output of their AI model. Especially in sens...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice)

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