An approach to fault isolation that exploits vastly incomplete models is presented. It relies on separate descriptions of each component behavior, together with the links between them, which enables focusing of the reasoning to the relevant part of the system. As normal observations do not need explanation, the behavior of the components is limited to anomaly propagation. Diagnostic solutions are disorders (fault modes or abnormal signatures) that are consistent with the observations, as well as abductive explanations. An ordinal representation of uncertainty based on possibility theory provides a simple exception-tolerant description of the component behaviors. We can for instance distinguish between effects that are more or less certainly present (or absent) and effects that are more or less certainly present (or absent) when a given anomaly is present. A realistic example illustrates the benefits of this approach.
RetiBridge: Bridging Quantitative Retinal Biomarkers and Qualitative Diagnosis with a Knowledge-Guided Multimodal Large Language Model
University of Liverpool（利物浦大学）；Institute of Life Course & Medical Sciences（生命课程与医学科学研究院）；Department of Eye and Vision Sciences（眼科与视觉科学系）；Computer Science Department（计算机科学系）；Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine（心血管与代谢医学）；Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science（利物浦心血管科学中心）
ExAID: A Multimodal Explanation Framework for Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Skin Lesions
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH（德国人工智能研究中心）；Technical University Kaiserslautern（凯泽斯劳滕工业大学）；University Hospital Münster（明斯特大学医院）；University Hospital of Düsseldorf（杜塞尔多夫大学医院）；School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)（国立科技大学电气工程与计算机科学学院）；Deep Learning Laboratory, National Center of Artificial Intelligence（国家人工智能中心深度学习实验室）
DeepOpht: Medical Report Generation for Retinal Images via Deep Models and Visual Explanation
Georgia Institute of Technology（佐治亚理工学院）；University of Cambridge（剑桥大学）；Bern University Hospital（伯尔尼大学医院）；National Taiwan University（台湾大学）；University of California, Berkeley（加州大学伯克利分校）；Tri-Service General Hospital（三军总医院）；Beijing Friendship Hospital（北京友谊医院）；King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)（阿卜杜拉国王科技大学）；University of Amsterdam（阿姆斯特丹大学）
