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Event logs recorded during the execution of business processes constitute a valuable source of information. Applying process mining techniques to them, event logs may reveal the actual process execution and enable reasoning on quantitative…

Collective privacy loss becomes a colossal problem, an emergency for personal freedoms and democracy. But, are we prepared to handle personal data as scarce resource and collectively share data under the doctrine: as little as possible, as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Evangelos Pournaras , Mark Christopher Ballandies , Stefano Bennati , Chien-fei Chen

Wearable devices have gained huge popularity in today's world. These devices collect large-scale health data from their users, such as heart rate and step count data, that is privacy sensitive, however it has not yet received the necessary…

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An electroencephalogram (EEG)-based brain-computer interface (BCI) enables direct communication between the brain and external devices. However, such systems face at least three major challenges in real-world applications: limited decoding…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiaoqing Chen , Tianwang Jia , Yunlu Tu , Dongrui Wu

Telecare medical information systems are gaining rapid popularity in terms of providing the delivery of online health-related services such as online remote health profile access for patients and doctors. Due to being installed entirely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Mahdi Nikooghadam , Haleh Amintoosi

While prior work has shown that Federated Learning updates can leak sensitive information, label reconstruction attacks, which aim to recover input labels from shared gradients, have not yet been examined in the context of Human Activity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Marius Bock , Maximilian Hopp , Kristof Van Laerhoven , Michael Moeller

Differential privacy has become the preeminent technique to protect the privacy of individuals in a database while allowing useful results from data analysis to be shared. Notably, it guarantees the amount of privacy loss in the worst-case…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Arin Ghazarian , Jianwei Zheng , Cyril Rakovski

Electrocardiogram (ECG) biometrics have emerged as a promising modality for continuous, liveness-aware authentication in wearable systems. However, many prior studies report overly optimistic results due to data leakage (e.g., random splits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Milad Parvan

In many social networks, one publishes information that one wants to reveal (e.g., the photograph of some friends) together with information that may lead to privacy breaches (e.g., the name of these people). One might want to hide this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Chen-Da Liu , Simone Santini

Differential privacy offers formal quantitative guarantees for algorithms over datasets, but it assumes attackers that know and can influence all but one record in the database. This assumption often vastly overapproximates the attackers'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Damien Desfontaines , Esfandiar Mohammadi , Elisabeth Krahmer , David Basin

This research paper explores ways to apply Federated Learning (FL) and Differential Privacy (DP) techniques to population-scale Electrocardiogram (ECG) data. The study learns a multi-label ECG classification model using FL and DP based on…

Electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities are linked to cardiovascular diseases, but may also occur in other non-cardiovascular conditions such as mental, neurological, metabolic and infectious conditions. However, most of the recent success of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Weijie Sun , Sunil Vasu Kalmady , Amir Salimi , Nariman Sepehrvand , Eric Ly , Abram Hindle , Russell Greiner , Padma Kaul

Electroencephalogram monitoring devices and online data repositories hold large amounts of data from individuals participating in research and medical studies without direct reference to personal identifiers. This paper explores what types…

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Heart diseases rank among the leading causes of global mortality, demonstrating a crucial need for early diagnosis and intervention. Most traditional electrocardiogram (ECG) based automated diagnosis methods are trained at population level,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yaojun Hu , Jintai Chen , Lianting Hu , Dantong Li , Jiahuan Yan , Haochao Ying , Huiying Liang , Jian Wu

Typical personal medical data contains sensitive information about individuals. Storing or sharing the personal medical data is thus often risky. For example, a short DNA sequence can provide information that can not only identify an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Ho Bae , Dahuin Jung , Sungroh Yoon

User authentication is a pivotal element in security systems. Conventional methods including passwords, personal identification numbers, and identification tags are increasingly vulnerable to cyber-attacks. This paper suggests a paradigm…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Naveenkumar G Venkataswamy , Masudul H Imtiaz

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are a powerful representation of linked data, offering flexibility, semantic richness, and support for knowledge enrichment and reasoning. They help data owners organize and exploit heterogeneous data to provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yasmine Hayder

Membership Inference Attacks have emerged as a dominant method for empirically measuring privacy leakage from machine learning models. Here, privacy is measured by the {\em{advantage}} or gap between a score or a function computed on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Ruihan Wu , Pengrun Huang , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Consider two data holders, ABC and XYZ, with graph data (e.g., social networks, e-commerce, telecommunication, and bio-informatics). ABC can see that node A is linked to node B, and XYZ can see node B is linked to node C. Node B is the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Didem Demirag , Mina Namazi , Erman Ayday , Jeremy Clark