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    Area of Science:

    • Cardiology
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Medical Informatics

    Background:

    • Pre-trained neural networks for ECG diagnosis lack transparency, hindering clinical use.
    • Existing explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods identify relevant ECG regions but don't directly correlate with cardiologists' evidence-based features.
    • Bridging the gap between AI decision-making and clinical ECG interpretation is crucial for diagnostic tool translation.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To extend an XAI framework for ECG analysis by incorporating ECG wave durations and intervals.
    • To validate the correlation between XAI-identified regions of interest (ROIs) and established cardiological ECG features.
    • To improve the clinical translatability of AI-driven ECG diagnostic tools.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized a pre-trained neural network on the PTB-XL dataset for predicting first-degree AV block (1dAVb) and left bundle branch block (LBBB).
    • Applied an extended XAI framework to extract ROIs from ECGs and analyzed their correlation with PR interval and QRS duration.
    • Quantified the overlap between AI-identified ROIs and evidence-based ECG metrics for specific conditions.

    Main Results:

    • For 1dAVb, XAI ROIs centered on P waves and QRS complexes with prolonged PR intervals; 96.0% of high-confidence predictions exceeded the 200ms threshold.
    • For LBBB, XAI ROIs focused on QRS complexes; 98.6% of high-confidence predictions showed QRS duration >120ms.
    • Demonstrated a strong correlation between the neural network's decisions and evidence-based ECG features using the enhanced XAI framework.

    Conclusions:

    • The extended XAI framework successfully correlates AI-driven ECG diagnoses with established clinical features.
    • This enhanced transparency facilitates the clinical translation of AI diagnostic tools by providing cardiologists with interpretable insights.
    • AI predictions for 1dAVb and LBBB align significantly with key diagnostic ECG intervals, supporting clinical utility.