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Medical image segmentation is crucial for computer-aided diagnosis, yet privacy constraints hinder data sharing across institutions. Federated learning addresses this limitation, but existing approaches often rely on lightweight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Tong Wang , Xingyue Zhao , Linghao Zhuang , Haoyu Zhao , Jiayi Yin , Yuyang He , Gang Yu , Bo Lin

Protecting sensitive health data while enabling collaborative analysis is a central challenge in healthcare. Traditional machine learning (ML) requires institutions to pool anonymized patient records, centralizing analytical development and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Gaurang Sharma , Juha Pajula , Aada Illikainen , Markus Rautell , Noora Lipsonen , Petri Alhainen , Mika Hilvo

This paper proposes a distributed deep learning framework for privacy-preserving medical data training. In order to avoid patients' data leakage in medical platforms, the hidden layers in the deep learning framework are separated and where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Joohyung Jeon , Junhui Kim , Joongheon Kim , Kwangsoo Kim , Aziz Mohaisen , Jong-Kook Kim

Deep learning models have shown their advantage in many different tasks, including neuroimage analysis. However, to effectively train a high-quality deep learning model, the aggregation of a significant amount of patient information is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xiaoxiao Li , Yufeng Gu , Nicha Dvornek , Lawrence Staib , Pamela Ventola , James S. Duncan

Medical image segmentation plays a vital role in clinic disease diagnosis and medical image analysis. However, labeling medical images for segmentation task is tough due to the indispensable domain expertise of radiologists. Furthermore,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-20 Yubin Zheng , Peng Tang , Tianjie Ju , Weidong Qiu , Bo Yan

Distributed training can facilitate the processing of large medical image datasets, and improve the accuracy and efficiency of disease diagnosis while protecting patient privacy, which is crucial for achieving efficient medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 Lisang Zhou , Meng Wang , Ning Zhou

Biomedical named entity recognition (BNER) serves as the foundation for numerous biomedical text mining tasks. Unlike general NER, BNER require a comprehensive grasp of the domain, and incorporating external knowledge beyond training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Junyi Bian , Rongze Jiang , Weiqi Zhai , Tianyang Huang , Hong Zhou , Shanfeng Zhu

Federated learning enables the deployment of machine learning to problems for which centralized data collection is impractical. Adding differential privacy guarantees bounds on privacy while data are contributed to a global model. Adding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Andrew Silva , Katherine Metcalf , Nicholas Apostoloff , Barry-John Theobald

Federated learning (FL) is increasingly recognised for addressing security and privacy concerns in traditional cloud-centric machine learning (ML), particularly within personalised health monitoring such as wearable devices. By enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Anum Nawaz , Muhammad Irfan , Xianjia Yu , Hamad Aldawsari , Rayan Hamza Alsisi , Zhuo Zou , Tomi Westerlund

Deep learning with medical data often requires larger samples sizes than are available at single providers. While data sharing among institutions is desirable to train more accurate and sophisticated models, it can lead to severe privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Brett K. Beaulieu-Jones , William Yuan , Samuel G. Finlayson , Zhiwei Steven Wu

While rich medical datasets are hosted in hospitals distributed across the world, concerns on patients' privacy is a barrier against using such data to train deep neural networks (DNNs) for medical diagnostics. We propose Dopamine, a system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Mohammad Malekzadeh , Burak Hasircioglu , Nitish Mital , Kunal Katarya , Mehmet Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gündüz

Personalized News Recommendation systems (PNR) have emerged as a solution to information overload by predicting and suggesting news items tailored to individual user interests. However, traditional PNR systems face several challenges,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Mehdi Khalaj , Shahrzad Golestani Najafabadi , Julita Vassileva

Electronic Health Records (EHR) data contains medical records such as diagnoses, medications, procedures, and treatments of patients. This data is often considered sensitive medical information. Therefore, the EHR data from the medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Ofir Ben Shoham , Nadav Rappoport

This work investigates multiple approaches to Named Entity Recognition (NER) for text in Electronic Health Record (EHR) data. In particular, we look into the application of (i) rule-based, (ii) deep learning and (iii) transfer learning…

The collection and curation of large-scale medical datasets from multiple institutions is essential for training accurate deep learning models, but privacy concerns often hinder data sharing. Federated learning (FL) is a promising solution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Rui Yan , Liangqiong Qu , Qingyue Wei , Shih-Cheng Huang , Liyue Shen , Daniel Rubin , Lei Xing , Yuyin Zhou

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm where many local nodes collaboratively train a central model while keeping the training data decentralized. This is particularly relevant for clinical applications since patient data…

Labelling data is expensive and time consuming especially for domains such as medical imaging that contain volumetric imaging data and require expert knowledge. Exploiting a larger pool of labeled data available across multiple centers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Daiqing Li , Amlan Kar , Nishant Ravikumar , Alejandro F Frangi , Sanja Fidler

Healthcare industries frequently handle sensitive and proprietary data, and due to strict privacy regulations, they are often reluctant to share data directly. In today's context, Federated Learning (FL) stands out as a crucial remedy,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Amandeep Singh Bhatia , David E. Bernal Neira

Medical health care centers are envisioned as a promising paradigm to handle the massive volume of data of COVID-19 patients using artificial intelligence (AI). Traditionally, AI techniques often require centralized data collection and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Rajesh Kumar , WenYong Wang , Cheng Yuan , Jay Kumar , Zakria , He Qing , Ting Yang , Abdullah Aman Khan

For the modern world where data is becoming one of the most valuable assets, robust data privacy policies rooted in the fundamental infrastructure of networks and applications are becoming an even bigger necessity to secure sensitive user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Anudit Nagar