A Comparative Analysis of LIME and SHAP Interpreters With Explainable ML-Based Diabetes Predictions

Explainable artificial intelligence is beneficial in converting opaque machine learning models into transparent ones and outlining how each one makes decisions in the healthcare industry. To comprehend the variables that affect decision-making regarding diabetes prediction that can be accounted for by model-agnostic techniques. In this project, we investigate how to generate local and global explanations for a machine-learning model built on a logistic regression architecture. We trained on 253,680 survey responses from diabetes patients using the explainable AI techniques LIME and SHAP. LIME and SHAP were then used to explain the predictions produced by the logistic regression and Random forest-based model on the validation and test sets. With a discussion of future work, the comparative analysis and discussion of various experimental findings between LIME and SHAP are provided, along with their strengths and weaknesses in terms of interpretation. With a high accuracy of 86% on the test set, we used LR architecture with a spatial attention mechanism, demonstrating the possibility of merging machine learning and explainable AI to improve diabetes prediction, diagnosis, and treatment. We also focus on various applications, difficulties, and probable future directions of machine learning models for LIME and SHAP interpreters.