Ivanoe De Falco

Dr. Ivanoe De Falco

Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking – National Research Council of Italy (ICAR-CNR)
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Academic Career Length

31Years (1996-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 June 2007 in Applied Soft Computing
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Antonio Della CioppaAntonio Della Cioppa
Antonio Della Cioppa
ETErnesto Tarantino
Ernesto Tarantino

1 May 2002 in Applied Soft Computing
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Antonio Della CioppaAntonio Della Cioppa
Antonio Della Cioppa
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Ernesto Tarantino

1 May 2002 in Applied Soft Computing
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Ivanoe De Falco
Antonio Della CioppaAntonio Della Cioppa
Antonio Della Cioppa
ETErnesto Tarantino
Ernesto Tarantino

1 September 2008 in Applied Soft Computing
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Ivanoe De Falco
Antonio Della CioppaAntonio Della Cioppa
Antonio Della Cioppa
DMDomenico Maisto
Domenico Maisto
ETErnesto Tarantino
Ernesto Tarantino

1 February 2013 in Applied Soft Computing
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5 June 2025 in Medical Image Analysis
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NUNaeem Ullah
Naeem Ullah
FGFlorentina Guzmán-Aroca
Florentina Guzmán-Aroca
Francisco Martínez-ÁlvarezFrancisco Martínez-Álvarez
Francisco Martínez-Álvarez
Ivanoe De FalcoIvanoe De Falco
Ivanoe De Falco
Giovanna SanninoGiovanna Sannino
Giovanna Sannino
Artificial intelligence and deep learning are powerful tools for extracting knowledge from large datasets, particularly in healthcare. However, their black-box nature raises interpretability concerns, especially in high-stakes applications. Existing eXplainable Artificial Intelligence methods often focus solely on visualization or rule-based explanations, limiting interpretability's depth and clarity. This work proposes a novel explainable AI method specifically designed for medical image analysis, integrating statistical, visual, and rule-based explanations to improve transparency in deep learning models. Statistical features are derived from deep features extracted using a custom Mobilenetv2 model. A two-step feature selection method - zero-based filtering with mutual importance selection - ranks and refines these features. Decision tree and RuleFit models are employed to classify data and extract human-readable rules. Additionally, a novel statistical feature map overlay visualization generates heatmap-like representations of three key statistical measures (mean, skewness, and entropy), providing both localized and quantifiable visual explanations of model decisions. The proposed method has been validated on five medical imaging datasets - COVID-19 radiography, ultrasound breast cancer, brain tumor magnetic resonance imaging, lung and colon cancer histopathological, and glaucoma images - with results confirmed by medical experts, demonstrating its effectiveness in enhancing interpretability for medical image classification tasks.