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arxiv: 2410.09635 · v2 · submitted 2024-10-12 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI

Use of What-if Scenarios to Help Explain Artificial Intelligence Models for Neonatal Health

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keywords counterfactual explanationsneonatal healthdeep learningdata augmentationintrapartum risksinterpretable AICTGANhigh-risk delivery prediction
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The pith

A neural network predicts high-risk deliveries at 0.784 F1 score and explains predictions through changes to two or three factors.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents AIMEN as a deep learning framework that forecasts adverse labor outcomes using maternal, fetal, obstetrical, and intrapartum data. It augments limited and imbalanced clinical records with CTGAN-generated synthetic samples, relaxing some feature bounds and filtering by silhouette score before training an ensemble of fully connected neural networks. AIMEN exceeds XGBoost, TabNet, DANet, and LightGBM on average F1 score while producing counterfactual explanations that require modifications to only two or three input attributes on average. These what-if scenarios are intended to reveal how specific variable adjustments could shift a prediction, supplying clinicians with concrete reasoning behind each output. The approach directly targets the lack of accurate, interpretable automated support for intrapartum decision-making.

Core claim

AIMEN is an ensemble of fully connected neural networks trained on real data plus CTGAN-augmented samples that classifies high-risk deliveries more accurately than XGBoost, TabNet, DANet, and LightGBM while generating counterfactual explanations that identify actionable changes to an average of only two to three attributes.

What carries the argument

Counterfactual explanations that search for the smallest set of input-feature modifications sufficient to flip the model's output from high-risk to low-risk.

If this is right

  • Higher F1 performance enables earlier detection of intrapartum risks that could prompt timely interventions to reduce adverse outcomes such as cerebral palsy.
  • Explanations limited to two or three attributes make the model's reasoning practical for real-time clinical review during delivery.
  • CTGAN augmentation with bound relaxation and silhouette filtering mitigates class imbalance and small sample size in neonatal datasets.
  • The ensemble architecture supports both accurate classification and the generation of minimal-change counterfactuals.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the suggested attribute changes align with known modifiable risk factors, the explanations could directly inform bedside adjustments to maternal or fetal monitoring.
  • The same minimal-change counterfactual technique could be adapted to other medical domains that face class imbalance and require interpretable outputs.
  • Prospective deployment across multiple hospitals would test whether the performance and explanation simplicity hold under varying population demographics and recording practices.

Load-bearing premise

The CTGAN synthetic samples, after relaxing feature bounds for some points and applying silhouette-score filtering, faithfully represent the true joint distribution of real clinical variables without introducing artifacts that distort the learned decision boundary or the validity of the resulting counterfactual explanations.

What would settle it

A held-out set of real deliveries where the two-to-three-attribute counterfactuals proposed by AIMEN fail to match observed changes in actual patient outcomes or established clinical guidelines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2410.09635 by Abdullah Mamun, David W. Britt, Hassan Ghasemzadeh, Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Lawrence D. Devoe, Mark I. Evans.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: AIMEN uses 34 risk factors of four categories. A machine learning model is trained and used to infer the risk of cerebral palsy. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The AIMEN system is made of three major components: a data generator, a risk predictor, and a risk explainer. These three [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: AIMEN’s backbone is an ensemble of eight fully connected neural networks. The default AIMEN has a specific backbone [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Performance metrics on the test set using different methods of data generation. The real training data features have only [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Training, validation, and test set metrics along with the test set confusion matrix with the AIMEN system with CTGAN data [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: ROC curve and the performance of the classification based on decision threshold. (a) The ROC curve using true positive rate [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Examples of CE using the nearest instance CE algorithm. Attributes to be changed are underlined. Here, a specific example [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: SHAP values for 34 input features on 1385 real training data and 38 real test data using the AIMEN system (MLP_v5 backbone). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_8.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Early detection of intrapartum risks enables timely interventions to prevent or mitigate adverse labor outcomes such as cerebral palsy. However, accurate automated systems to support clinical decision-making during delivery are currently lacking. To address this gap, we propose Artificial Intelligence for Modeling and Explaining Neonatal Health (AIMEN), a deep learning framework that predicts adverse labor outcomes from maternal, fetal, obstetrical, and intrapartum factors while providing interpretable reasoning behind its predictions. AIMEN reveals how specific modifications to input variables could alter predicted outcomes, enhancing clinical insight. To address class imbalance and limited sample size, AIMEN employs Conditional Tabular GAN (CTGAN) for data augmentation. This process includes synthetic data generation, and we investigate in detail properties such as relaxing feature bounds for a subset of training points to explore slightly out-of-range physiological values, and applying silhouette-score-based filtering to increase the separability of synthetic samples. AIMEN uses an ensemble of fully connected neural networks for classification and outperforms state-of-the-art models such as XGBoost, TabNet, DANet, and LightGBM, achieving an average F1 score of 0.784 in predicting high-risk deliveries. Moreover, AIMEN generates counterfactual explanations that identify actionable changes involving only two to three attributes on average. Resources: https://github.com/ab9mamun/AIMEN.

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Referee Report

3 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes AIMEN, an ensemble of fully-connected neural networks for predicting high-risk deliveries from maternal/fetal/obstetrical/intrapartum features. It augments limited real data via CTGAN, with bound relaxation on a subset of points and silhouette-score filtering, reports an average F1 of 0.784 that outperforms XGBoost/TabNet/DANet/LightGBM, and supplies counterfactual explanations that on average modify only two-to-three attributes.

Significance. If the CTGAN-augmented distribution faithfully matches the real clinical joint statistics, the work would supply a practically useful predictor together with sparse, actionable explanations for intrapartum risk. The absence of any reported fidelity diagnostics for the synthetic data, however, leaves both the performance gain and the validity of the counterfactuals unverified on true patient distributions.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the headline claim that AIMEN 'outperforms state-of-the-art models … achieving an average F1 score of 0.784' supplies no information on dataset size, class balance, cross-validation scheme, or statistical significance testing, rendering the central empirical result impossible to evaluate.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract (CTGAN paragraph): the augmentation pipeline (CTGAN generation, feature-bound relaxation, silhouette-score filtering) is presented as essential to both the reported F1 gain and the counterfactuals, yet no marginal/conditional distribution checks, correlation preservation metrics, or real-only ablation results are supplied to confirm that the filtered synthetics do not distort decision boundaries or introduce separability artifacts.
  3. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that counterfactuals 'identify actionable changes involving only two to three attributes on average' rests on the same unvalidated augmented distribution; without fidelity evidence the sparsity and actionability of the explanations cannot be trusted on real clinical data.
minor comments (1)
  1. The GitHub link is supplied but the manuscript does not state whether the released code includes the exact CTGAN hyperparameters, silhouette threshold, and bound-relaxation fraction used for the reported results.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on the abstract and the validation of the CTGAN augmentation. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate the requested details and analyses.

read point-by-point responses
  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the headline claim that AIMEN 'outperforms state-of-the-art models … achieving an average F1 score of 0.784' supplies no information on dataset size, class balance, cross-validation scheme, or statistical significance testing, rendering the central empirical result impossible to evaluate.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract should provide sufficient context. In the revised version we will expand the abstract to report the original dataset size, class balance (imbalance ratio), the cross-validation scheme (stratified k-fold), and results of statistical significance testing against the baselines. These details already appear in the methods and results sections of the full manuscript. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (CTGAN paragraph): the augmentation pipeline (CTGAN generation, feature-bound relaxation, silhouette-score filtering) is presented as essential to both the reported F1 gain and the counterfactuals, yet no marginal/conditional distribution checks, correlation preservation metrics, or real-only ablation results are supplied to confirm that the filtered synthetics do not distort decision boundaries or introduce separability artifacts.

    Authors: This point is correct; the current manuscript does not report explicit fidelity diagnostics. We will add marginal and conditional distribution comparisons, correlation preservation metrics, and a real-data-only ablation study in the revision to demonstrate that the filtered synthetic samples do not introduce decision-boundary artifacts. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that counterfactuals 'identify actionable changes involving only two to three attributes on average' rests on the same unvalidated augmented distribution; without fidelity evidence the sparsity and actionability of the explanations cannot be trusted on real clinical data.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the counterfactual sparsity claim depends on the fidelity of the augmented distribution. The revision will include the fidelity checks noted above and, where feasible, evaluate counterfactual sparsity on held-out real samples or clearly articulate the associated assumptions and limitations in the discussion. revision: yes

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No circularity; performance and explanations are empirical outputs of standard supervised training

full rationale

The paper describes training an ensemble of fully connected neural networks on data augmented by CTGAN (with bound relaxation and silhouette filtering) to address imbalance, then reports F1=0.784 and 2-3 attribute counterfactuals as direct results of that training. No step equates a fitted parameter to a prediction by construction, renames a known result, or reduces the central claim to a self-citation chain or self-definition. The augmentation is presented as preprocessing whose validity is assumed rather than enforced by the reported metrics themselves. The derivation chain remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

4 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central performance and explanation claims rest on the quality of the CTGAN augmentation step and on standard supervised-learning assumptions about data representativeness; the ledger therefore records the tunable components of that augmentation and the domain assumptions required for clinical utility.

free parameters (4)
  • CTGAN training hyperparameters
    Parameters controlling the generative model that produces the synthetic samples used for augmentation.
  • Silhouette-score filtering threshold
    Threshold applied to retain only well-separated synthetic samples.
  • Feature-bound relaxation fraction
    Fraction or rule determining which training points are allowed to have slightly out-of-range values during augmentation.
  • Ensemble architecture and training hyperparameters
    Number of networks, layer sizes, learning rates, etc., fitted to the augmented data.
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption The original clinical dataset is representative of the population on which the model will be deployed.
    Required for any claim that the reported F1 will translate to real-world performance.
  • domain assumption Counterfactual changes identified by the model correspond to clinically feasible and causally relevant interventions.
    Necessary for the explanations to be actionable rather than merely mathematical.

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