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In clinical research, the lack of events of interest often necessitates imbalanced learning. One approach to resolve this obstacle is data integration or sharing, but due to privacy concerns neither is practical. Therefore, there is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Seok-Ju Hahn , Junghye Lee

Deep Learning (DL) has revolutionized medical imaging, yet its adoption is constrained by data scarcity and privacy regulations, limiting access to diverse datasets. Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized training but suffers from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Francesco Di Salvo , Hanh Huyen My Nguyen , Christian Ledig

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized method enabling hospitals to collaboratively learn a model without sharing private patient data for training. In FL, participant hospitals periodically exchange training results rather than…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-24 S. Maryam Hosseini , Milad Sikaroudi , Morteza Babaei , H. R. Tizhoosh

Machine learning on large-scale genomic or transcriptomic data is important for many novel health applications. For example, precision medicine tailors medical treatments to patients on the basis of individual biomarkers, cellular and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Anika Hannemann , Jan Ewald , Leo Seeger , Erik Buchmann

In this work, we explore the way to perform named entity recognition (NER) using only unlabeled data and named entity dictionaries. To this end, we formulate the task as a positive-unlabeled (PU) learning problem and accordingly propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Minlong Peng , Xiaoyu Xing , Qi Zhang , Jinlan Fu , Xuanjing Huang

Unstructured textual data is at the heart of healthcare systems. For obvious privacy reasons, these documents are not accessible to researchers as long as they contain personally identifiable information. One way to share this data while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Yakini Tchouka , Jean-François Couchot , David Laiymani

The performance of deep learning-based methods strongly relies on the number of datasets used for training. Many efforts have been made to increase the data in the medical image analysis field. However, unlike photography images, it is hard…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Pochuan Wang , Chen Shen , Holger R. Roth , Dong Yang , Daguang Xu , Masahiro Oda , Kazunari Misawa , Po-Ting Chen , Kao-Lang Liu , Wei-Chih Liao , Weichung Wang , Kensaku Mori

Biomedical Named Entity Recognition presents significant challenges due to the complexity of biomedical terminology and inconsistencies in annotation across datasets. This paper introduces SRU-NER (Slot-based Recurrent Unit NER), a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 João Ruano , Gonçalo M. Correia , Leonor Barreiros , Afonso Mendes

In a setting where segmentation models have to be built for multiple datasets, each with its own corresponding label set, a straightforward way is to learn one model for every dataset and its labels. Alternatively, multi-task architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Deepa Anand , Bipul Das , Vyshnav Dangeti , Antony Jerald , Rakesh Mullick , Uday Patil , Pakhi Sharma , Prasad Sudhakar

The current state of adoption of well-structured electronic health records and integration of digital methods for storing medical patient data in structured formats can often considered as inferior compared to the use of traditional,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Johann Frei , Frank Kramer

Data privacy constraints pose significant challenges for large-scale neuroimaging analysis, especially in multi-site functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies, where site-specific heterogeneity leads to non-independent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yipu Zhang , Chengshuo Zhang , Ziyu Zhou , Gang Qu , Hao Zheng , Yuping Wang , Hui Shen , Hongwen Deng

Nested named entity recognition identifies entities contained within other entities, but requires expensive multi-level annotation. While flat NER corpora exist abundantly, nested resources remain scarce. We investigate whether models can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Igor Rozhkov , Natalia Loukachevitch

Given the high incidence and effective treatment options for liver diseases, they are of great socioeconomic importance. One of the most common methods for analyzing CT and MRI images for diagnosis and follow-up treatment is liver…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Tobias Bernecker , Annette Peters , Christopher L. Schlett , Fabian Bamberg , Fabian Theis , Daniel Rueckert , Jakob Weiß , Shadi Albarqouni

Deep learning models for brain tumor analysis require large and diverse datasets that are often siloed across healthcare institutions due to privacy regulations. We present a federated learning framework for brain tumor localization that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Andrea Protani , Riccardo Taiello , Marc Molina Van Den Bosch , Luigi Serio

The clinical named entity recognition (CNER) task seeks to locate and classify clinical terminologies into predefined categories, such as diagnostic procedure, disease disorder, severity, medication, medication dosage, and sign symptom.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Yichao Zhou , Chelsea Ju , J. Harry Caufield , Kevin Shih , Calvin Chen , Yizhou Sun , Kai-Wei Chang , Peipei Ping , Wei Wang

Privacy-preserving machine learning in data-sharing processes is an ever-critical task that enables collaborative training of Machine Learning (ML) models without the need to share the original data sources. It is especially relevant when…

To better tackle the named entity recognition (NER) problem on languages with little/no labeled data, cross-lingual NER must effectively leverage knowledge learned from source languages with rich labeled data. Previous works on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Qianhui Wu , Zijia Lin , Börje F. Karlsson , Jian-Guang Lou , Biqing Huang

Federated learning is a renowned technique for utilizing decentralized data while preserving privacy. However, real-world applications often face challenges like partially labeled datasets, where only a few locations have certain expert…

Distributed learning paradigms such as federated learning often involve transmission of model updates, or gradients, over a network, thereby avoiding transmission of private data. However, it is possible for sensitive information about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Trung Dang , Om Thakkar , Swaroop Ramaswamy , Rajiv Mathews , Peter Chin , Françoise Beaufays

Federated learning (FL) is an appealing concept to perform distributed training of Neural Networks (NN) while keeping data private. With the industrialization of the FL framework, we identify several problems hampering its successful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Lixuan Yang , Cedric Beliard , Dario Rossi