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Extracting Explainable Clinical Decision Rules in Korean Medicine Using Symbolic Regression
강사명Taerim Yun 강의시간6분 강의개설일2025-12-10
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Objectives: Since medicine is directly related to human life, there is a substantial legal and ethical responsibility in diagnosis and treatment decisions. Therefore, in medical AI, not only predictive performance but also explainability of predictions is critical. If clinicians cannot understand the process or rationale behind AI predictions, the application of AI in clinical practice will be significantly constrained. The purpose of this study is to construct a framework that extracts the implicit clinical decision-making processes of Korean Medicine doctors into explicit and interpretable forms using symbolic regression. Symbolic regression is a technique that represents learning outcomes as analytic expressions such as equations, providing not only predictive performance but also high explainability of predictions.



Results: Although the environment contained relatively few samples compared to the number of features—making it prone to overfitting on specific training sets—PySR showed comparable generalization performance to conventional models. In contrast, PySR demonstrated a remarkable advantage in explainability. It exhibited a richer ability to search for equations than logistic regression, which is limited to simple linear forms. Unlike tree-based or boosting models that only provide explanations in terms of feature importance, symbolic regression provided explicit mathematical expressions for class boundaries, which is a distinct advantage in the medical domain where pattern identification and classification are critical. Conclusion: Symbolic regression, which represents individual doctors’ decision-making criteria in explicit and interpretable mathematical forms, holds two major implications. First, it enables doctors to objectively review their own clinical decision-making criteria, thereby providing clear feedback. Second, by integrating the equations derived from multiple doctors within the same school of Korean medicine, it allows the formulation of group-level equations, laying the groundwork for developing school-specific CDSS AI

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Master’s student of Theoretical Neuroscience & Computational Medicine Lab at Gachon University, College of Korean Medicine. Graduated from Kyunghee University, College of Korean Medicine and interested in Medical AI, Computational Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Sasang Constitutional Medicine.