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Deep Learning has established in the latest years as a successful approach to address a great variety of tasks. Healthcare is one of the most promising field of application for Deep Learning approaches since it would allow to help…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Edoardo Giacomello , Michele Cataldo , Daniele Loiacono , Pier Luca Lanzi

The utilization of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for clinical risk prediction is on the rise. However, strict privacy regulations limit access to comprehensive health records, making it challenging to apply standard machine learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Angeela Acharya , Sulabh Shrestha , Anyi Chen , Joseph Conte , Sanja Avramovic , Siddhartha Sikdar , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Sanmay Das

Synthesizing electronic health records (EHR) data has become a preferred strategy to address data scarcity, improve data quality, and model fairness in healthcare. However, existing approaches for EHR data generation predominantly rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yuan Zhong , Xiaochen Wang , Jiaqi Wang , Xiaokun Zhang , Yaqing Wang , Mengdi Huai , Cao Xiao , Fenglong Ma

The sharing of patient-level data necessary for covariate-adjusted survival analysis between medical institutions is difficult due to privacy protection restrictions. We propose a privacy-preserving framework that estimates balanced…

Electronic health records (EHRs) and other real-world clinical data are essential for clinical research, medical artificial intelligence, and life science, but their sharing is severely limited by privacy, governance, and interoperability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Maolin Wang , Beining Bao , Gan Yuan , Hongyu Chen , Bingkun Zhao , Baoshuo Kan , Jiming Xu , Qi Shi , Yinggong Zhao , Yao Wang , Wei Ying Ma , Jun Yan

Sharing electronic health records (EHRs) on a large scale may lead to privacy intrusions. Recent research has shown that risks may be mitigated by simulating EHRs through generative adversarial network (GAN) frameworks. Yet the methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Chao Yan , Ziqi Zhang , Steve Nyemba , Bradley A. Malin

Although data-driven methods usually have noticeable performance on disease diagnosis and treatment, they are suspected of leakage of privacy due to collecting data for model training. Recently, federated learning provides a secure and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yawei Zhao , Qinghe Liu , Xinwang Liu , Kunlun He

The discovery of clinical biomarkers requires large patient cohorts and is aided by a pooled data approach across institutions. In many countries, data protection constraints, especially in the clinical environment, forbid the exchange of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-03 Daniela Zöller , Harald Binder

Privacy data protection in the medical field poses challenges to data sharing, limiting the ability to integrate data across hospitals for training high-precision auxiliary diagnostic models. Traditional centralized training methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Tian Bowen , Xu Zhengyang , Yin Zhihao , Wang Jingying , Yue Yutao

The extraction of relevant data from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is crucial to identifying symptoms and automating epidemiological surveillance processes. By harnessing the vast amount of unstructured text in EHRs, we can detect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Juliano Genari , Guilherme Tegoni Goedert

We design a scalable algorithm to privately generate location heatmaps over decentralized data from millions of user devices. It aims to ensure differential privacy before data becomes visible to a service provider while maintaining high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Eugene Bagdasaryan , Peter Kairouz , Stefan Mellem , Adrià Gascón , Kallista Bonawitz , Deborah Estrin , Marco Gruteser

This paper studies federated learning for nonparametric regression in the context of distributed samples across different servers, each adhering to distinct differential privacy constraints. The setting we consider is heterogeneous,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-12 T. Tony Cai , Abhinav Chakraborty , Lasse Vuursteen

As the size of datasets used in statistical learning continues to grow, distributed training of models has attracted increasing attention. These methods partition the data and exploit parallelism to reduce memory and runtime, but suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Fred Lu , Ryan R. Curtin , Edward Raff , Francis Ferraro , James Holt

The use of collaborative and decentralized machine learning techniques such as federated learning have the potential to enable the development and deployment of clinical risk predictions models in low-resource settings without requiring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Stephen R. Pfohl , Andrew M. Dai , Katherine Heller

Online collaborative medical prediction platforms offer convenience and real-time feedback by leveraging massive electronic health records. However, growing concerns about privacy and low prediction quality can deter patient participation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Shao-Bo Lin , Xiaotong Liu , Yao Wang

With rise of machine learning (ML) and the proliferation of smart mobile devices, recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in performing ML in wireless edge networks. In this paper, we consider the problem of jointly improving data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Xin Zhang , Minghong Fang , Jia Liu , Zhengyuan Zhu

Analysis of longitudinal Electronic Health Record (EHR) data is an important goal for precision medicine. Difficulty in applying Machine Learning (ML) methods, either predictive or unsupervised, stems in part from the heterogeneity and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-18 Alan D. Kaplan , Uttara Tipnis , Jean C. Beckham , Nathan A. Kimbrel , David W. Oslin , Benjamin H. McMahon

Timely sharing of electronic health records (EHR) across providers is essential and significance in facilitating medical researches and prompt patients' care. With sharing, it is crucial that patients can control who can access their data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Kheng-Leong Tan , Chi-Hung Chi , Kwok-Yan Lam

Machine learning holds great promise for advancing the field of medicine, with electronic health records (EHRs) serving as a primary data source. However, EHRs are often sparse and contain missing data due to various challenges and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Jun Han , Josue Nassar , Sanjit Singh Batra , Aldo Cordova-Palomera , Vijay Nori , Robert E. Tillman

Synthesizing information from multiple data sources is crucial for constructing accurate individualized treatment rules (ITRs). However, privacy concerns often present significant barriers to the integrative analysis of such multi-source…

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