Dissecting scientific explanation in AI (sXAI): A case for medicine and healthcare
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Combining explainability of algorithms with privacy-preserving methods such as federated learning might help address privacy and security implications of XAI.
“Combining explainability of algorithms with privacy-preserving methods such as federated learning [27] might help.”
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- Authors
- Durán, J. M.
- Affiliations
- Delft University of Technology (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Durán, Juan M.
- ORCID
- Durán, Juan M.
- Venue
- Artificial Intelligence
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-08
- Volume
- 297
- Pages
- 103498
- ISSN
- 0004-3702 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3137844837
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- 62
- References
- 84
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- 2026: 4 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 3.62
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
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- doi.org/10.15223/policy-017 (stm-asf)
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- doi.org/10.15223/policy-004 (stm-asf)
- Locations
- Artificial Intelligence (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- European Commission
- Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy and History of Science
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Keywords
- scientific explanation, explainable AI, artificial intelligence in healthcare, health care, explanatory power, theory of explanation, explanatory relations
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