Optimal vocabulary selection approaches for privacy-preserving deep NLP model training for information extraction and cancer epidemiology.

Journal: Cancer biomarkers : section A of Disease markers
Published Date:

Abstract

BACKGROUND: With the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques for biomedical informatics, security and privacy concerns over the data and subject identities have also become an important issue and essential research topic. Without intentional safeguards, machine learning models may find patterns and features to improve task performance that are associated with private personal information.

Authors

  • Hong-Jun Yoon
  • Christopher Stanley
    Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
  • J Blair Christian
  • Hilda B Klasky
    Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, United States of America. Electronic address: klaskyhb@ornl.gov.
  • Andrew E Blanchard
    Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
  • Eric B Durbin
    University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
  • Xiao-Cheng Wu
    Department of Epidemiology, Louisiana State University New Orleans School of Public Health, New Orleans, LA 70112, United States.
  • Antoinette Stroup
    New Jersey State Cancer Registry, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States of America. Electronic address: nan.stroup@rutgers.edu.
  • Jennifer Doherty
    Utah Cancer Registry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, United States of America. Electronic address: Jen.Doherty@hci.utah.edu.
  • Stephen M Schwartz
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.
  • Charles Wiggins
    University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
  • Mark Damesyn
    California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, CA 59814, USA.
  • Linda Coyle
    Information Management Services Inc, Calverton, Maryland, USA.
  • Georgia D Tourassi