Federated Deep Learning Architecture for Personalized Healthcare.

Journal: Studies in health technology and informatics
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Abstract

Using deep learning to advance personalized healthcare requires data about patients to be collected and aggregated from disparate sources that often span institutions and geographies. Researchers regularly come face-to-face with legitimate security and privacy policies that constrain access to these data. In this work, we present a vision for privacy-preserving federated neural network architectures that permit data to remain at a custodian's institution while enabling the data to be discovered and used in neural network modeling. Using a diabetes dataset, we demonstrate that accuracy and processing efficiencies using federated deep learning architectures are equivalent to the models built on centralized datasets.

Authors

  • Helen Chen
    University of Waterloo.
  • Shubhankar Mohapatra
    Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada.
  • George Michalopoulos
    University of Waterloo.
  • Xi He
    Institute of Systems Genetics, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China.
  • Ian McKillop
    School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Canada.