Table 1.

Criteria for inclusion and exclusion.

Inclusion Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

• Full text available • Published during 2015 to 2023 • Published in the considered databases • Work published in workshops (W), symposiums (S), conferences (C), books (B), and journals (J) across all disciplines • English-language papers exploring the definition, explanation, methodologies, approaches, evaluation metrics, image analysis, image processing, disease diagnosing, and the role of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in healthcare

• Uncompleted studies • Not in English • Duplicated papers • Studies that discuss XAI in image analysis beyond the realm of medical imaging