Promoting Learning Through Explainable Artificial Intelligence: An Experimental Study in Radiology

Abstract

The deployment of machine learning (ML)-based decision support systems (DSSs) in high-risk environments such as radiology is increasing. Despite having achieved high decision accuracy, they are prone to errors. Thus, they are primarily used to assist radiologists in their decision making. However, collaborative decision making poses risks to the decision maker, e.g. automation bias and long-term performance degradation. To address these issues, we propose combining findings of the research streams of explainable artificial intelligence and education to promote human learning through interaction with ML-based DSSs. We provided radiologists with explainable vs non-explainable decision support that was high- vs low-performing in a between-subject experimental study to support manual segmentation of 690 brain tumor scans. Our results show that explainable ML-based DSSs improved human learning outcomes and prevented false learning triggered by incorrect decision support. In fact, radiologists were able to learn from errors made by the low-performing explainable ML-based DSS.

BibTeX

				
					@inproceedings{ellenrieder2023promoting,
  author = {Ellenrieder, Sara and Kallina, Emma Marlene and Pumplun, Luisa and Gawlitza, Joshua Felix and Ziegelmayer, Sebastian and Buxmann, Peter},
  title = {Promoting Learning Through Explainable Artificial Intelligence: An Experimental Study in Radiology},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2023)},
  year = {2023},
  number = {3},
  url = {https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2023/learnandiscurricula/learnandiscurricula/3}
}
				
			
APA Reference

Ellenrieder, S., Kallina, E., Pumplun, L., Gawlitza, J., Ziegelmayer, S., & Buxmann, P. (2023). Promoting Learning Through Explainable Artificial Intelligence: An Experimental Study in Radiology. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2023).

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Emma Kallina

Emma is driven by a desire to design technology that enhances human well-being – beyond human performance. She started her PhD at the Institute...