Explainable AI: A Combined XAI Framework for Explaining Brain Tumour Detection Models

Patrick McMonigle; William  Farrelly; Kevin Curran

doi:10.37256/est.8120279934

Explainable AI: A Combined XAI Framework for Explaining Brain Tumour Detection Models

Patrick McMonigle
, William Farrelly
, Kevin Curran

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	99-128
Journal	Engineering Science & Technology
Volume	8
Issue number	1
Early online date	18 Aug 2026
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.37256/est.8120279934
Publication status	Published online - 18 Aug 2026

Keywords

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
brain tumour
convolutional neural network
magnetic resonance imaging
Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM)
SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP)
layer-wise relevance propagation
interpretability

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