PointExplainer: Towards Transparent Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis
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| author | Wang, Xuechao Nomm, Sven Huang, Junqing Medijainen, Kadri Toomela, Aaro Ruzhansky, Michael |
| author_facet | Wang, Xuechao Nomm, Sven Huang, Junqing Medijainen, Kadri Toomela, Aaro Ruzhansky, Michael |
| contents | Deep neural networks have shown potential in analyzing digitized hand-drawn signals for early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. However, the lack of clear interpretability in existing diagnostic methods presents a challenge to clinical trust. In this paper, we propose PointExplainer, an explainable diagnostic strategy to identify hand-drawn regions that drive model diagnosis. Specifically, PointExplainer assigns discrete attribution values to hand-drawn segments, explicitly quantifying their relative contributions to the model's decision. Its key components include: (i) a diagnosis module, which encodes hand-drawn signals into 3D point clouds to represent hand-drawn trajectories, and (ii) an explanation module, which trains an interpretable surrogate model to approximate the local behavior of the black-box diagnostic model. We also introduce consistency measures to further address the issue of faithfulness in explanations. Extensive experiments on two benchmark datasets and a newly constructed dataset show that PointExplainer can provide intuitive explanations with no diagnostic performance degradation. The source code is available at https://github.com/chaoxuewang/PointExplainer. |
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| spellingShingle | PointExplainer: Towards Transparent Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis Wang, Xuechao Nomm, Sven Huang, Junqing Medijainen, Kadri Toomela, Aaro Ruzhansky, Michael Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Deep neural networks have shown potential in analyzing digitized hand-drawn signals for early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. However, the lack of clear interpretability in existing diagnostic methods presents a challenge to clinical trust. In this paper, we propose PointExplainer, an explainable diagnostic strategy to identify hand-drawn regions that drive model diagnosis. Specifically, PointExplainer assigns discrete attribution values to hand-drawn segments, explicitly quantifying their relative contributions to the model's decision. Its key components include: (i) a diagnosis module, which encodes hand-drawn signals into 3D point clouds to represent hand-drawn trajectories, and (ii) an explanation module, which trains an interpretable surrogate model to approximate the local behavior of the black-box diagnostic model. We also introduce consistency measures to further address the issue of faithfulness in explanations. Extensive experiments on two benchmark datasets and a newly constructed dataset show that PointExplainer can provide intuitive explanations with no diagnostic performance degradation. The source code is available at https://github.com/chaoxuewang/PointExplainer. |
| title | PointExplainer: Towards Transparent Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03833 |