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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE

Interpretability analysis of deep models for COVID-19 detection

Daniel Peixoto Pinto da Silva1 ,  Edresson Casanova2 ,  Lucas Rafael Stefanel Gris3 ,  Marcelo Matheus Gauy4* ,  Arnaldo Candido Junior5 ,  Marcelo Finger4 ,  Flaviane Romani Fernandes Svartman6 ,  Beatriz Raposo de Medeiros7 ,  Marcus Vinícius Moreira Martins8 ,  Sandra Maria Aluísio2 ,  Larissa Cristina Berti9 ,  João Paulo Teixeira10
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1 Academic Department of Computing, Federal University of Technology – Paraná, Medianeira, Paraná, Brazil
2 Department of Computer Science, Institute of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
3 Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Goiás, Goiania, Goiás, Brazil
4 Department of Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
5 Department of Computing and Statistics, Institute of Biosciences, Humanities and Exact Sciences, São Paulo State University, São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
6 Department of Classical and Vernacular Literature, Faculty of Philosophy, Language, Literature and Human Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
7 Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy, Language, Literature and Human Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
8 Department of Literature and Linguistics, University of the State of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
9 Department of Speech Therapy, Faculty of Philosophy and Sciences, São Paulo State University, Marília, São Paulo, Brazil
10 Department of Eletronics, Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics (CeDRI), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal
AIH 2024, 1(3), 114–126; https://doi.org/10.36922/aih.2992
Submitted: 21 February 2024 | Accepted: 17 June 2024 | Published: 30 July 2024
© 2024 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
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Abstract

During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, various research disciplines collaborated to address the impacts of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 infections. This paper presents an interpretability analysis of a convolutional neural network-based model designed for COVID-19 detection using audio data. We explore the input features that play a crucial role in the model’s decision-making process, including spectrograms, fundamental frequency (F0), F0 standard deviation, sex, and age. Subsequently, we examine the model’s decision patterns by generating heat maps to visualize its focus during the decision-making process. Emphasizing an explainable artificial intelligence approach, our findings demonstrate that the examined models can make unbiased decisions even in the presence of noise in training set audios, provided appropriate preprocessing steps are undertaken. Our top-performing model achieves a detection accuracy of 94.44%. Our analysis indicates that the analyzed models prioritize high-energy areas in spectrograms during the decision process, particularly focusing on high-energy regions associated with prosodic domains, while also effectively utilizing F0 for COVID-19 detection.

Keywords
Coronavirus disease 2019 detection
Voice processing
Gradient-weight class activation mapping
Funding
This work was supported by FAPESP grants 2022/16374-6 (MMG), 2020/06443-5 (SPIRA), and 2023/00488-5 (SPIRA-BM) and by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001.
Conflict of interest
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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