arXiv Computation and Language

Explanation-Guided Medical Named Entity Recognition with Stability and Boundary Awareness for Atopic Dermatitis

The paper introduces a stability and boundary-aware explanation-guided framework for medical named entity recognition (NER) in Chinese atopic dermatitis clinical texts. It uses perturbation-based analysis to assess explanation stability and entity boundary sensitivity, and an adaptive fusion strategy to combine local and global explanations. The fused explanations are integrated into training via stability, boundary-aware, and consistency constraints, leading to improved recognition performance and more reliable explanations across multiple NER models.

arXiv AI
3d ago

A Comparative Explainability Framework for DeBERTa-v3 in Zero-Shot Medical Abstract Classification

The paper introduces a comparative explainability framework for auditing DeBERTa‑v3 in zero‑shot medical abstract classification. It evaluates five explanation methods—SHAP, LIME, occlusion, Input × Gradient, and Attention × Gradient—using a natural language inference engine on a balanced corpus of 1,000 abstracts per diagnostic category. The study finds that explanatory stability aligns with predictive certainty, identifies three systemic failure mechanisms, and recommends combining multiple explanation methods and quantitative agreement metrics for transformer‑based medical text classifiers.

By Javier Diaz Esteban-Herreros, David Mu\~noz-Valero, Raquel Mart\'inez-Espa\~na, Jose M. Juarez, Juan Moreno-Garcia
arXiv AI
Jun 12

AAbAAC: An Annotated Corpus for Autoimmunity Information Extraction

arXiv:2606. 13051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite advances in information extraction driven by deep learning and large language models, performance gaps remain in highly specialized biomedical fields, where domainspecific complexity poses challenges for generalist models.

By Fabien Maury (Imagine - U1163, HeKA | U1346), Sol\`ene Grosdidier (Imagine - U1163), Maud de Dieuleveult (Imagine - U1163), Adrien Coulet (HeKA | U1346)
arXiv AI
Jun 3

ChatHealthAI: Aligning Electronic Health Record Representations with Large Language Models for Grounded Clinical Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 02802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong natural-language reasoning abilities for clinical decision support, but struggle to effectively model structured longitudinal electronic health records (EHRs).

By Bo-Hong Wang, Baicheng Peng, Ruilin Wang, Jun Bai, Ziyang Song, Yue Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

SMILE: Self-Explainable Multimodal Information Bottleneck for Medical Diagnosis

The paper introduces SMILE, a self‑explainable multimodal information bottleneck framework for medical diagnosis. It jointly optimizes predictive accuracy and modality‑specific explainability by selecting the most informative elements within each data modality. Experiments on diverse medical datasets show strong diagnostic performance, including a 9.1‑percentage‑point accuracy gain on the iCTCF dataset, and provide transparent, modality‑aware explanations that enhance both explainability and generalization.

By Yuqing Yang, Alexander Schmatz, Zhaozhao Ma, Changkyu Choi, Robert Jenssen, Shujian Yu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 21

Explainable Transformer Models for Clinical Prediction Tasks on Structured Electronic Health Records

arXiv:2608. 20315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predictive models over structured electronic health records (EHRs) remain central to machine learning for healthcare, but few have jointly emphasized quantitative laboratory information and interpretability with respect to input medical events.

By Jun Ni Du, Lukas Adamek, Maxim Kryukov, Flavio Dormont, Ziv Bar-Joseph, Sven Jager, Brandon Rufino