Dynamic Corrected Split Federated Learning With Homomorphic Encryption for U-Shaped Medical Image Networks.

Journal: IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
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Abstract

U-shaped networks have become prevalent in various medical image tasks such as segmentation, and restoration. However, most existing U-shaped networks rely on centralized learning which raises privacy concerns. To address these issues, federated learning (FL) and split learning (SL) have been proposed. However, achieving a balance between the local computational cost, model privacy, and parallel training remains a challenge. In this articler, we propose a novel hybrid learning paradigm called Dynamic Corrected Split Federated Learning (DC-SFL) for U-shaped medical image networks. To preserve data privacy, including the input, model parameters, label and output simultaneously, we propose to split the network into three parts hosted by different parties. We propose a Dynamic Weight Correction Strategy (DWCS) to stabilize the training process and avoid the model drift problem due to data heterogeneity. To further enhance privacy protection and establish a trustworthy distributed learning paradigm, we propose to introduce additively homomorphic encryption into the aggregation process of client-side model, which helps prevent potential collusion between parties and provides a better privacy guarantee for our proposed method. The proposed DC-SFL is evaluated on various medical image tasks, and the experimental results demonstrate its effectiveness. In comparison with state-of-the-art distributed learning methods, our method achieves competitive performance.

Authors

  • Ziyuan Yang
    School of Information Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China.
  • Yingyu Chen
    College of Veterinary Medicine, Wuhan, China.
  • Huijie Huangfu
  • Maosong Ran
    College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China. Electronic address: maosongran@gmail.com.
  • Hui Wang
    Department of Vascular Surgery, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
  • Xiaoxiao Li
    Yale University, 06510 New Haven, CT USA.
  • Yi Zhang
    Department of Thyroid Surgery, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Jilin University, Changchun, China.