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This study introduces an explainable AI method to uncover environmental interactions contributing to obesity. This approach, using random intersection trees, identifies key environmental factors impacting waist-to-height ratios in adolescents.

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  • Environmental health
  • Computational epidemiology
  • Obesity research

Background:

  • Obesity arises from complex interactions between environmental, social, and individual factors.
  • Traditional analytical methods struggle to identify these interactions without manual specification.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate an explainable artificial intelligence (AI) approach for discovering complex interactions in environmental factors related to obesity.
  • To adapt AI methods from genomics for analyzing multi-level environmental influences on health outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized random forest models to predict waist-to-height ratios in 11,112 adolescents from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study.
  • Employed random intersection trees to decode and extract significant interactions between environmental features identified by the random forest models.

Main Results:

  • Successfully identified interacting environmental features influencing waist-to-height ratios.
  • Demonstrated that AI techniques used for gene-environment interaction discovery can be applied to environmental-environmental interactions.

Conclusions:

  • An explainable AI approach can effectively uncover complex environmental interactions contributing to obesity.
  • This novel modeling approach offers a powerful tool for understanding ecosystem impacts on health and identifying critical environmental combinations for intervention.