Fairness-Aware Interpretable Modeling (FAIM) for Trustworthy Machine Learning in Healthcare

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Main Authors: Liu, Mingxuan, Ning, Yilin, Ke, Yuhe, Shang, Yuqing, Chakraborty, Bibhas, Ong, Marcus Eng Hock, Vaughan, Roger, Liu, Nan
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author Liu, Mingxuan
Ning, Yilin
Ke, Yuhe
Shang, Yuqing
Chakraborty, Bibhas
Ong, Marcus Eng Hock
Vaughan, Roger
Liu, Nan
author_facet Liu, Mingxuan
Ning, Yilin
Ke, Yuhe
Shang, Yuqing
Chakraborty, Bibhas
Ong, Marcus Eng Hock
Vaughan, Roger
Liu, Nan
contents The escalating integration of machine learning in high-stakes fields such as healthcare raises substantial concerns about model fairness. We propose an interpretable framework - Fairness-Aware Interpretable Modeling (FAIM), to improve model fairness without compromising performance, featuring an interactive interface to identify a "fairer" model from a set of high-performing models and promoting the integration of data-driven evidence and clinical expertise to enhance contextualized fairness. We demonstrated FAIM's value in reducing sex and race biases by predicting hospital admission with two real-world databases, MIMIC-IV-ED and SGH-ED. We show that for both datasets, FAIM models not only exhibited satisfactory discriminatory performance but also significantly mitigated biases as measured by well-established fairness metrics, outperforming commonly used bias-mitigation methods. Our approach demonstrates the feasibility of improving fairness without sacrificing performance and provides an a modeling mode that invites domain experts to engage, fostering a multidisciplinary effort toward tailored AI fairness.
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spellingShingle Fairness-Aware Interpretable Modeling (FAIM) for Trustworthy Machine Learning in Healthcare
Liu, Mingxuan
Ning, Yilin
Ke, Yuhe
Shang, Yuqing
Chakraborty, Bibhas
Ong, Marcus Eng Hock
Vaughan, Roger
Liu, Nan
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computers and Society
The escalating integration of machine learning in high-stakes fields such as healthcare raises substantial concerns about model fairness. We propose an interpretable framework - Fairness-Aware Interpretable Modeling (FAIM), to improve model fairness without compromising performance, featuring an interactive interface to identify a "fairer" model from a set of high-performing models and promoting the integration of data-driven evidence and clinical expertise to enhance contextualized fairness. We demonstrated FAIM's value in reducing sex and race biases by predicting hospital admission with two real-world databases, MIMIC-IV-ED and SGH-ED. We show that for both datasets, FAIM models not only exhibited satisfactory discriminatory performance but also significantly mitigated biases as measured by well-established fairness metrics, outperforming commonly used bias-mitigation methods. Our approach demonstrates the feasibility of improving fairness without sacrificing performance and provides an a modeling mode that invites domain experts to engage, fostering a multidisciplinary effort toward tailored AI fairness.
title Fairness-Aware Interpretable Modeling (FAIM) for Trustworthy Machine Learning in Healthcare
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05235