Towards Visually Explaining Statistical Tests with Applications in Biomedical Imaging
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| author | Javanbakhat, Masoumeh Komorowski, Piotr Bareeva, Dilyara Lai, Wei-Chang Samek, Wojciech Lippert, Christoph |
| author_facet | Javanbakhat, Masoumeh Komorowski, Piotr Bareeva, Dilyara Lai, Wei-Chang Samek, Wojciech Lippert, Christoph |
| contents | Deep neural two-sample tests have recently shown strong power for detecting distributional differences between groups, yet their black-box nature limits interpretability and practical adoption in biomedical analysis. Moreover, most existing post-hoc explainability methods rely on class labels, making them unsuitable for label-free statistical testing settings. We propose an explainable deep statistical testing framework that augments deep two-sample tests with sample-level and feature-level explanations, revealing which individual samples and which input features drive statistically significant group differences. Our method highlights which image regions and which individual samples contribute most to the detected group difference, providing spatial and instance-wise insight into the test's decision. Applied to biomedical imaging data, the proposed framework identifies influential samples and highlights anatomically meaningful regions associated with disease-related variation. This work bridges statistical inference and explainable AI, enabling interpretable, label-free population analysis in medical imaging. |
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| spellingShingle | Towards Visually Explaining Statistical Tests with Applications in Biomedical Imaging Javanbakhat, Masoumeh Komorowski, Piotr Bareeva, Dilyara Lai, Wei-Chang Samek, Wojciech Lippert, Christoph Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Deep neural two-sample tests have recently shown strong power for detecting distributional differences between groups, yet their black-box nature limits interpretability and practical adoption in biomedical analysis. Moreover, most existing post-hoc explainability methods rely on class labels, making them unsuitable for label-free statistical testing settings. We propose an explainable deep statistical testing framework that augments deep two-sample tests with sample-level and feature-level explanations, revealing which individual samples and which input features drive statistically significant group differences. Our method highlights which image regions and which individual samples contribute most to the detected group difference, providing spatial and instance-wise insight into the test's decision. Applied to biomedical imaging data, the proposed framework identifies influential samples and highlights anatomically meaningful regions associated with disease-related variation. This work bridges statistical inference and explainable AI, enabling interpretable, label-free population analysis in medical imaging. |
| title | Towards Visually Explaining Statistical Tests with Applications in Biomedical Imaging |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13899 |