Improved Differentially Private Decentralized Source Separation for fMRI Data
Abstract
Blind source separation algorithms such as independent component analysis (ICA) are widely used in the analysis of neuroimaging data. In order to leverage larger sample sizes, different data holders/sites may wish to collaboratively learn feature representations. However, such datasets are often privacy-sensitive, precluding centralized analyses that pool the data at a single site. In this work, we propose a differentially private algorithm for performing ICA in a decentralized data setting. Conventional approaches to decentralized differentially private algorithms may introduce too much noise due to the typically small sample sizes at each site. We propose a novel protocol that uses correlated noise to remedy this problem. We show that our algorithm outperforms existing approaches on synthetic and real neuroimaging datasets and demonstrate that it can sometimes reach the same level of utility as the corresponding non-private algorithm. This indicates that it is possible to have meaningful utility while preserving privacy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1910.12913,
title = {Improved Differentially Private Decentralized Source Separation for fMRI Data},
author = {Hafiz Imtiaz and Jafar Mohammadi and Rogers Silva and Bradley Baker and Sergey M. Plis and Anand D. Sarwate and Vince Calhoun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.12913},
year = {2021}
}
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