Federated deep learning architecture for personalized healthcare

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. © 2021 European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and IOS Press.