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Introduction to Explainable AI

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Explainable AI (XAI) has emerged as an essential realm aimed at tackling the opacity of intricate AI models and nurturing confidence in their judgments. This study extensively investigates the fundamental underpinnings, methodologies, and practical implementations of XAI. The bedrock of XAI lies in the urgency to demystify the internal mechanisms of AI models, rendering their decision-making transparent for human stakeholders. Within the domain of XAI, diverse methodologies encompass a spectrum of techniques such as interpretable models, scrutiny of feature significance, localized and holistic elucidations, visual representations, and explications in natural language. These methodologies collectively foster intelligibility and amplify the explicable nature of AI models. This research significantly enriches the expanding reservoir of scholarly exploration by clarifying the core tenets of XAI. This comprehensive survey unmistakably demonstrates that XAI assumes a pivotal role in bridging the chasm between intricate AI processes and human comprehension. Consequently, it clears the path for a more reliable and efficacious partnership between human intellect and mechanical ingenuity.

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Ganatra, A. et al. (2024). Introduction to Explainable AI. In: Aluvalu, R., Mehta, M., Siarry, P. (eds) Explainable AI in Health Informatics. Computational Intelligence Methods and Applications. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-3705-5_1

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