Leveraging the expertise of physicians to identify medically meaningful features in ‘counterfactual’ images produced via generative machine learning facilitates the auditing of the inference process of medical-image classifiers, as shown for dermatology images.
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Lang, O., Traynis, I. & Liu, Y. Explaining counterfactual images. Nat. Biomed. Eng (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-023-01164-5
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