An Explainable-AI approach for Diagnosis of COVID-19 using MALDI-ToF Mass Spectrometry

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type-2 (SARS-CoV-2) caused a global pandemic and immensely affected the global economy. Accurate, cost-effective, and quick tests have proven substantial in identifying infected people and mitigating the spread. Recently, multiple alternative platforms for testing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been published that show high agreement with current gold standard real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) results. These new methods do away with nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs, eliminate the need for complicated reagents, and reduce the burden on RT-PCR test reagent supply. In the present work, we have designed an artificial intelligence-based (AI) testing method to provide confidence in the results. Current AI applications for COVID-19 studies often lack a biological foundation in the decision-making process, and our AI approach is one of the earliest to leverage explainable AI (X-AI) algorithms for COVID-19 diagnosis using mass spectrometry. Here, we have employed X-AI to explain the decision-making process on a local (per-sample) and global (all samples) basis underscored by biologically relevant features. We evaluated our technique with data extracted from human gargle samples and achieved a testing accuracy of 94.12%. Such techniques would strengthen the relationship between AI and clinical diagnostics by providing biomedical researchers and healthcare workers with trustworthy and, most importantly, explainable test results.

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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arXiv.org - (2021) vom: 28. Sept. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2021

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Seethi, Venkata Devesh Reddy [VerfasserIn]
LaCasse, Zane [VerfasserIn]
Chivte, Prajkta [VerfasserIn]
Bland, Joshua [VerfasserIn]
Kadkol, Shrihari S. [VerfasserIn]
Gaillard, Elizabeth R. [VerfasserIn]
Bharti, Pratool [VerfasserIn]
Alhoori, Hamed [VerfasserIn]

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Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science - Machine Learning

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XAR032687273