MaternaAI: Enhancing Equitable Maternal Healthcare in Kerala with Fairness-Aware and Explainable Learning Models
Jo, A. A.
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Maternal healthcare prediction systems often suffer from algorithmic biases due to socio-economic disparities and imbalanced datasets, limiting their effectiveness for equitable healthcare policymaking. This paper introduces MaternaAI, a fairness-aware and explainable learning framework designed to enhance maternal healthcare predictions in Kerala, India. The framework focuses on three critical health indicators:(1) Tetanus Toxoid (TT) booster uptake,(2) immunization coverage rates, and (3) the percentage of pregnant women completing four or more Antenatal Care (ANC) visits. To address fairness, we propose Adaptive Equity Score Optimization (AESO), a novel optimization algorithm that dynamically integrates fairness constraints into model training. AESO is model-agnostic and adapts group equity weights in response to real-time disparities. We integrate SHAP, LIME, and feature permutation techniques for explainability, enabling transparent global and local interpretation. Empirical results demonstrate that MaternaAI significantly improves fairness metrics and model accuracy across diverse machine learning and deep learning models, offering interpretable and equitable decision support for public health stakeholders.
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