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Volume: 38 | Article ID: VDA-349
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Easy Interpretation of Image Classification Results with Feature-level Visualization
  DOI :  10.2352/EI.2026.38.1.VDA-349  Published OnlineMarch 2026
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Given a picture classified as a Persian cat by an AI model, users may ask questions such as, “What are the contributions of the eyes and ears to the classification result?” or “Which features contribute the most?” While existing post-hoc XAI methods effectively explain model predictions at the pixel or patch level, they are limited in directly quantifying the contributions of human-interpretable semantic features. In this paper, we propose a visual analytics approach for feature-level interpretation of image classification results. Our contributions are twofold. First, we introduce a semantic contribution quantification method that builds upon existing pixel-level attribution techniques (e.g., Layer-wise Relevance Propagation, Grad-CAM). Specifically, we aggregate and normalize pixel-level relevance scores over predefined semantic regions (such as eyes, ears, and body) to compute comparable contribution scores for each semantic feature within an image. Second, we present an interactive visual interface that leverages these quantified semantic feature contributions to support exploration, comparison, and analysis of AI outputs across image collections. Through illustrative scenarios and expert feedback, we demonstrate that our approach provides an intuitive, scalable, and semantically meaningful means to interpret image classification explanations.

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Deepshikha Bhati, Ye Zhao, Tsung-Heng Wu, Md Amiruzzaman, Jing Yang, "Easy Interpretation of Image Classification Results with Feature-level Visualizationin Electronic Imaging,  2026,  pp 349-1 - 349-13,  https://doi.org/10.2352/EI.2026.38.1.VDA-349

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