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In AI-assisted digital pathology, GradCAM++ provides the highest spatial agreement with expert annotations, SHAP yields the highest faithfulness, and superior model classification performance systematically produces more spatially coherent explanations. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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This research aims to evaluate and compare various explainable AI methods for diagnosing lymph node metastases in histopathological images.

June 19, 2026DiagnosticsOpen Access

Explainability Methods for AI-Assisted Diagnosis of Lymph Node Metastases in Digital Pathology: A Quantitative Comparative Study

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Quantitative trial compares explainable AI methods for diagnosing lymph node metastases, suggesting optimal approaches for clinical use.

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This research aims to evaluate and compare various explainable AI methods for diagnosing lymph node metastases in histopathological images.
Four XAI techniques were applied: LIME, GradCAM, GradCAM++, and SHAP via DeepExplainer.
Evaluated three CNN models (VGG19, ResNet50, EfficientNetB3) on 220,026 patches from the PatchCamelyon benchmark.
Used spatial agreement metrics with expert annotations and faithfulness metrics independent of external annotations.
GradCAM++ achieved the highest spatial agreement with mean IoU of 0.52 ± 0.14 for EfficientNetB3.
SHAP yielded the highest faithfulness scores with an AOPC of 0.61 ± 0.08.
Squaregrid LIME showed a trade-off with IoU of 0.44 ± 0.17 at 3.8× lower cost than LIME AVG.

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Eduardo Costa da Silva (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a34dd1d65a5b0777af2ced6 https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics16121880

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June 19, 2026DiagnosticsOpen Access

Explainability Methods for AI-Assisted Diagnosis of Lymph Node Metastases in Digital Pathology: A Quantitative Comparative Study

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Authors

ESEduardo Costa da Silva

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Overview

Quantitative trial compares explainable AI methods for diagnosing lymph node metastases, suggesting optimal approaches for clinical use.

Key Points

This research aims to evaluate and compare various explainable AI methods for diagnosing lymph node metastases in histopathological images.
Four XAI techniques were applied: LIME, GradCAM, GradCAM++, and SHAP via DeepExplainer.
Evaluated three CNN models (VGG19, ResNet50, EfficientNetB3) on 220,026 patches from the PatchCamelyon benchmark.
Used spatial agreement metrics with expert annotations and faithfulness metrics independent of external annotations.
GradCAM++ achieved the highest spatial agreement with mean IoU of 0.52 ± 0.14 for EfficientNetB3.
SHAP yielded the highest faithfulness scores with an AOPC of 0.61 ± 0.08.
Squaregrid LIME showed a trade-off with IoU of 0.44 ± 0.17 at 3.8× lower cost than LIME AVG.

Cite This Study

Eduardo Costa da Silva (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a34dd1d65a5b0777af2ced6 https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics16121880

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