arXiv AI

Scientific Explanations in Health Sciences: Causality, Trust, and Epistemic Adequacy

arXiv:2606. 31616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical Artificial Intelligence (AI) is widely expected to transform clinical practice, yet the decision-making processes of many Machine Learning (ML) models remain opaque.

arXiv AI
Aug 25

Reconciling Consistency-Based Diagnosis with Actual-Causality-Based Explanations

The paper establishes connections between Consistency-Based Diagnosis (CBD) and concepts of Actual Causality and Causal Responsibility from the perspective of Explainable AI (XAI). It highlights that CBD has received limited attention within the XAI community and suggests that linking these areas could positively influence both XAI and Explainable Data Management.

By Leopoldo Bertossi
arXiv AI
Aug 20

What Can Artificial Intelligence Learn from Medicine? Generative Analogies and Reliable Machine Learning Systems

The paper examines how machine learning (ML) in medicine parallels clinical translation, framing this relationship as a generative analogy. It identifies epistemic and methodological warrants from clinical translation that are often invoked in ML discussions and analyzes how these warrants apply analogically to ML. The authors propose a new form of ML reliabilism, interpreting clinical translation warrants in reliabilist terms and showing how this perspective can inform ML systems distinct from existing reliabilist accounts in philosophy of AI.

By Emanuele Ratti, Lena Zuchowski
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Algorithmic Authority and the Clinical Standard of Care

arXiv:2606. 00044v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The integration of artificial intelligence into clinical medicine creates a fundamental tension between algorithmic probabilistic reasoning and the experiential intuition of expert physicians; applying Lawrence Lessig's \enquote{Code is Law} framework, I argue that the architecture of clinical AI systems already functions as de facto medical regulation, reshaping liability and the standard of care.

By Aizierjiang Aiersilan
arXiv AI
Sep 1

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Computational Pathology: Definitions, Taxonomy, and Recommendations

arXiv:2608.28820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computational pathology (CompPath) is transforming medicine by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to support diagnosis, prognosis, and...

By Shubham Innani, Suhang You, Adam Shephard, Bhakti Baheti, Francesco Ciompi, Joe Yeong, Nasir Rajpoot, Michael Feldman, Solene Florence Kammerer-Jacquet, Dimitrios Makris, Geert Litjens, Anne L. Martel, Jana Lipkova, April Khademi, Spyridon Bakas, for the MICCAI SIG-CompPath
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Generated Context versus Governed State: Functional Conditions for Accountable Longitudinal Clinical Reasoning

arXiv:2608. 14804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have become the dominant interface of clinical artificial intelligence, yet the interface they expose (text in, text out, one context window at a time) maintains no explicit, persistent, governed representation of what is currently true about a patient.

By Augusto Bernardo Pissarra, Victor Lorena de Farias Souza
arXiv AI
Sep 4

Medical Reasoning in the Era of LLMs: A Systematic Review of Enhancement Techniques and Applications

The paper reviews how Large Language Models (LLMs) are being adapted for medical reasoning, moving beyond single-step answers to systems that can systematically, transparently, and verifiably reason. It introduces a taxonomy of enhancement techniques, split into training-time methods such as supervised fine‑tuning and reinforcement learning, and test-time methods like prompt engineering and multi‑agent systems. The review examines their application across text, image, and code modalities in key clinical areas—diagnosis, education, and treatment planning—and tracks the shift in evaluation benchmarks from simple accuracy to more nuanced assessments of reasoning quality and visual interpretability.

By Zizhan Ma, Wenxuan Wang, Meidan Ding, Shiyi Zheng, Shengyuan Liu, Jie Liu, Jiaming Ji, Linlin Shen, Yixuan Yuan, Wenting Chen
arXiv AI
Aug 18

ETHOS: Towards a Modular Ethics Framework for Clinical Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2608. 15424v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid adoption of large language models has enabled the development of clinical multi-agent systems (MAS) capable of integrating multimodal patient data and supporting increasingly complex clinical decision-making.

By Rakesh Sharma, Sydney Pugh, Cameron Beeche, Pankhuri Singhal, Rachel Wu, Margaret Eby, Jeffrey Duda, James Gee, Kyra O'Brien, Hersh Sagreiya, Marina Serper, Victoria Gershuni, Angela Bradbury, Anurag Verma, Eric Eaton, Kevin B. Johnson, Walter Witschey
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

xWhyL: Causal Interactive Learning

arXiv:2609.26037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Explanations are central to causal reasoning, and cognitive science has long established that the human drive to explain is itself a mechanism for lear...

By Nicholas Tagliapietra, Florian Peter Busch, Moritz Willig, Matej Ze\v{c}evi\'c, Lavdim Halilaj, Juergen Luettin, Kristian Kersting