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With the growing use of camera devices, the industry has many image datasets that provide more opportunities for collaboration between the machine learning community and industry. However, the sensitive information in the datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Jia-Wei Chen , Li-Ju Chen , Chia-Mu Yu , Chun-Shien Lu

Patient notes contain a wealth of information of potentially great interest to medical investigators. However, to protect patients' privacy, Protected Health Information (PHI) must be removed from the patient notes before they can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Ji Young Lee , Franck Dernoncourt , Ozlem Uzuner , Peter Szolovits

Protected health information (PHI) de-identification is critical for enabling the safe reuse of clinical notes, yet evaluating and comparing PHI de-identification models typically depends on costly, small-scale expert annotations. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Guanchen Wu , Zuhui Chen , Yuzhang Xie , Carl Yang

Documents revealing sensitive information about individuals must typically be de-identified. This de-identification is often done by masking all mentions of personally identifiable information (PII), thereby making it more difficult to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Lucas Georges Gabriel Charpentier , Pierre Lison

Background: Electronic health records (EHRs) are a valuable resource for data-driven medical research. However, the presence of protected health information (PHI) makes EHRs unsuitable to be shared for research purposes. De-identification,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Aleksandar Kovačević , Bojana Bašaragin , Nikola Milošević , Goran Nenadić

Objective: To enhance automated de-identification of radiology reports by scaling transformer-based models through extensive training datasets and benchmarking performance against commercial cloud vendor systems for protected health…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Eva Prakash , Maayane Attias , Pierre Chambon , Justin Xu , Steven Truong , Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Tessa Cook , Curtis Langlotz

Medical images contain metadata information on where, when, and how an image was acquired, and the majority of this information is stored as pixel data. Image feature descriptions are often captured only as free text stored in the image…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Chen-Yu Lee , Deng-Jyi Chen

Ultrasound (US) machines display images on a built-in monitor, but routine transfer to hospital systems relies on DICOM. We propose a fully automatic method to generate labeled data that can be used to train a screen detector model, and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Alberto Gomez , Jorge Oliveira , Ramon Casero , Agis Chartsias

Unstructured textual data are at the heart of health systems: liaison letters between doctors, operating reports, coding of procedures according to the ICD-10 standard, etc. The details included in these documents make it possible to get to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Yakini Tchouka , Jean-François Couchot , Maxime Coulmeau , David Laiymani , Philippe Selles , Azzedine Rahmani

Privacy protection of medical image data is challenging. Even if metadata is removed, brain scans are vulnerable to attacks that match renderings of the face to facial image databases. Solutions have been developed to de-identify diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Lennart Alexander Van der Goten , Tobias Hepp , Zeynep Akata , Kevin Smith

The widespread use of image acquisition technologies, along with advances in facial recognition, has raised serious privacy concerns. Face de-identification usually refers to the process of concealing or replacing personal identifiers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jingyi Cao , Xiangyi Chen , Bo Liu , Ming Ding , Rong Xie , Li Song , Zhu Li , Wenjun Zhang

Image data has been greatly produced by individuals and commercial vendors in the daily life, and it has been used across various domains, like advertising, medical and traffic analysis. Recently, image data also appears to be greatly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Sen Wang , J. Morris Chang

Data sharing for medical research has been difficult as open-sourcing clinical data may violate patient privacy. Traditional methods for face de-identification wipe out facial information entirely, making it impossible to analyze facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Bingquan Zhu , Hao Fang , Yanan Sui , Luming Li

Medical health records and clinical summaries contain a vast amount of important information in textual form that can help advancing research on treatments, drugs and public health. However, the majority of these information is not shared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Nikola Milosevic , Gangamma Kalappa , Hesam Dadafarin , Mahmoud Azimaee , Goran Nenadic

The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into medical diagnostics has raised pressing concerns about patient privacy, especially when sensitive imaging data must be transferred, stored, or processed. In this paper, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Abdullah Al Siam , Sadequzzaman Shohan

Free-text clinical notes detail all aspects of patient care and have great potential to facilitate quality improvement and assurance initiatives as well as advance clinical research. However, concerns about patient privacy and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Nicholas Dobbins , David Wayne , Kahyun Lee , Özlem Uzuner , Meliha Yetisgen

Removing personally identifiable information (PII) from texts is necessary to comply with various data protection regulations and to enable data sharing without compromising privacy. However, recent works show that documents sanitized by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Sebastian Ochs , Ivan Habernal

Face de-identification algorithms have been developed in response to the prevalent use of public video recordings and surveillance cameras. Here, we evaluated the success of identity masking in the context of monitoring drivers as they…

Image classification is a well-studied task in computer vision, and yet it remains challenging under high-uncertainty conditions, such as when input images are corrupted or training data are limited. Conventional classification approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Omer Belhasin , Shelly Golan , Ran El-Yaniv , Michael Elad

Recently privacy concerns of person re-identification (ReID) raise more and more attention and preserving the privacy of the pedestrian images used by ReID methods become essential. De-identification (DeID) methods alleviate privacy issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Shuguang Dou , Xinyang Jiang , Qingsong Zhao , Dongsheng Li , Cairong Zhao