Beyond explainable AI: Enhancing trust and robustness in machine learning for sleep apnea diagnosis

Yoshiyasu Takefuji1

  • 1Faculty of Data Science, Musashino University, 3-3-3 Ariake Koto-ku, Tokyo, 135-8181, Japan.

Sleep Medicine Reviews
|August 17, 2025
PubMed
Summary

This study critiques explainable AI (XAI) for sleep apnea detection, finding feature importances unreliable. It proposes unsupervised machine learning and nonparametric statistics for robust clinical validation.