In this paper, we propose an explainable and interpretable diabetic
retinopathy (ExplainDR) classification model based on neural-symbolic learning.
To gain explainability, a highlevel symbolic representation should be
considered in decision making. Specifically, we introduce a human-readable
symbolic representation, which follows a taxonomy style of diabetic retinopathy
characteristics related to eye health conditions to achieve explainability. We
then include humanreadable features obtained from the symbolic representation
in the disease prediction. Experimental results on a diabetic retinopathy
classification dataset show that our proposed ExplainDR method exhibits
promising performance when compared to that from state-of-the-art methods
applied to the IDRiD dataset, while also providing interpretability and
explainability.

本文提出了一种可解释的和可解释的基于神经符号学习的糖尿病性视网膜病变（ExplainDR）分类模型，其中对决策制定应考虑高层符号表示以获得可解释性。特别是，我们介绍了人类可读的符号表示，该表示遵循与眼部健康相关的糖尿病性视网膜病变特征的分类法样式以实现解释性。我们随后将从符号表示获取的人类可读特征包括在疾病预测中。对糖尿病性视网膜病变分类数据集的实验结果表明，与应用于 IDRiD 数据集的最先进方法相比，我们提出的 ExplainDR 方法表现出有希望的性能，同时提供解释性和可解释性。