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Towards Explainable Classifiers Using the Counterfactual Approach - Global Explanations for Discovering Bias in Data Cover

Towards Explainable Classifiers Using the Counterfactual Approach - Global Explanations for Discovering Bias in Data

Open Access
|Dec 2020

Abstract

The paper proposes summarized attribution-based post-hoc explanations for the detection and identification of bias in data. A global explanation is proposed, and a step-by-step framework on how to detect and test bias is introduced. Since removing unwanted bias is often a complicated and tremendous task, it is automatically inserted, instead. Then, the bias is evaluated with the proposed counterfactual approach. The obtained results are validated on a sample skin lesion dataset. Using the proposed method, a number of possible bias-causing artifacts are successfully identified and confirmed in dermoscopy images. In particular, it is confirmed that black frames have a strong influence on Convolutional Neural Network’s prediction: 22% of them changed the prediction from benign to malignant.

Language: English
Page range: 51 - 67
Submitted on: May 15, 2020
Accepted on: Sep 30, 2020
Published on: Dec 3, 2020
Published by: SAN University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

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