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This research addresses a critical interpretability hurdle in medical Vision-Language Models by integrating tree-gram parsing to prevent semantic fragmentation during explanation generation. By grouping tokens based on dependency trees rather than treating them as isolated subwords, the proposed ParseFIxLIP method yields more coherent and clinically relevant attributions for complex concepts like "saddle embolus." This advancement directly supports responsible AI deployment in high-stakes clinical environments by clarifying model reasoning without sacrificing statistical robustness.
Explaining BiomedCLIP with Weighted Banzhaf Interactions Supported by Tree-Gram Parsing
arXiv:2607.23368v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are demonstrating significant capabilities in medical tasks like radiology analysis, yet providing faithful and interpretable explanations remains a key consideration for their responsible deployment in clinical settings. However, existing explanation methods, such as the widely used FIxLIP framework, often struggle with the fine-grained nature of modern tokenizers. The tokenization problem fragments clinical concepts---splitting terms like "saddle embolus" into scattered, meaningless subwords---which leads to noisy, semantically incoherent cross-modal attributions. Such fragmentation also results in a combinatorial explosion of interaction possibilities, obscuring the model's true reasoning. To address this, we introduce ParseFIxLIP, an extension that incorporates the Tree-Gram Parsing into the Banzhaf interaction game used by FIxLIP. This semantically informed strategy utilizes dependency parsing trees to define explanation players by grouping related text tokens into semantically coherent units. Our smart_depth grouping strategy, merging tokens according to spaCy token dependency tree, successfully mitigates concept fragmentation, yielding substantially more interpretable cross-modal interactions by unifying complex medical concepts. Quantitatively, while baselines struggled with the high dimensionality of long captions, our parsing approach maintained statistical robustness and semantic parsimony. Qualitative analysis on BiomedCLIP, validated on medical imagery (ROCOv2) and general examples, confirms that the approach accurately captures the synergistic influence of grouped words on model predictions. In conclusion, our work offers intuitive and clinically relevant insights into VLM decision-making, fulfilling the critical need for coherent explanations in the medical domain.
Abstract:Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are demonstrating significant capabilities in medical tasks like radiology analysis, yet providing faithful and interpretable explanations remains a key consideration for their responsible deployment in clinical settings. However, existing explanation methods, such as the widely used FIxLIP framework, often struggle with the fine-grained nature of modern tokenizers. The tokenization problem fragments clinical concepts---splitting terms like "saddle embolus" into scattered, meaningless subwords---which leads to noisy, semantically incoherent cross-modal attributions. Such fragmentation also results in a combinatorial explosion of interaction possibilities, obscuring the model's true reasoning. To address this, we introduce ParseFIxLIP, an extension that incorporates the Tree-Gram Parsing into the Banzhaf interaction game used by FIxLIP. This semantically informed strategy utilizes dependency parsing trees to define explanation players by grouping related text tokens into semantically coherent units. Our smart_depth grouping strategy, merging tokens according to spaCy token dependency tree, successfully mitigates concept fragmentation, yielding substantially more interpretable cross-modal interactions by unifying complex medical concepts. Quantitatively, while baselines struggled with the high dimensionality of long captions, our parsing approach maintained statistical robustness and semantic parsimony. Qualitative analysis on BiomedCLIP, validated on medical imagery (ROCOv2) and general examples, confirms that the approach accurately captures the synergistic influence of grouped words on model predictions. In conclusion, our work offers intuitive and clinically relevant insights into VLM decision-making, fulfilling the critical need for coherent explanations in the medical domain.
12 pages, 13 figures. Accepted at EXPLIMED 2026 (Third Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence for the medical domain), IJCAI-ECAI 2026
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
arXiv:2607.23368 [cs.CV]
(or arXiv:2607.23368v1 [cs.CV] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.23368 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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