The introduction of data analytics into medicine has changed the nature of patient treatment. In this, patients are asked to disclose personal information such as genetic markers, lifestyle habits, and clinical history. This data is then used by statistical models to predict personalized treatments. However, due to pri…
Ward2ICU dataset protects patient privacy while generating synthetic ICU transitions data.
problem Protecting patient privacy while creating synthetic ICU transition data.
method Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to generate synthetic data, class label balancing.
result Quality of synthetic data generation assessed through binary classification task.
Privacy-preserving deep learning for medical data across distributed platforms.
problem Data leakage in medical platforms.
method Separates hidden layers; first layer local, others centralized for training.
result Improved learning performance with all data used during training.
Paper shows federated learning can train models on private data.
problem Training predictive models on private hospital data.
method Distributed training in federated learning framework.
result Federated learning achieves comparable performance to traditional methods.
Challenge hides and seeks privacy in clinical time-series data.
problem De-identifying clinical time-series data while preserving utility and privacy.
method Synthetic data generation to preserve temporal dynamics and limit re-identification risk.
result A novel competition tracks synthetic data generation and patient re-identification.
Privacy-preserving inference for clinical trials using differential privacy.
problem Balancing knowledge sharing and privacy in healthcare data.
method Differential privacy (DP) applied to log-linear belief updates in distributed settings.
result Differentially private, distributed inference methods outperform existing techniques.
FONT clusters patients across health systems with privacy and efficiency.
problem Challenges in multi-site cluster analysis due to data-sharing restrictions.
method Federated One-shot Ensemble Clustering (FONT) algorithm that requires only a single round of communication and exchanges only fitted model parameters and class labels.
result FONT improves consistency of patient clusters across sites compared to locally fitted clusters.
CEDAR efficiently analyzes distributed EHR data without sharing patient-level info.
problem Analyzing patient-level data from multiple EHRs databases without sharing raw data.
method Tackles by turning problem into missing data, incorporating posterior samples.
result Improves efficiency and privacy of parameter estimates in sparse regressions.
PPGAN adds noise to GAN gradients to protect private data.
problem Protecting private data in GANs when training on sensitive datasets.
method Integrates differential privacy into GANs by adding noise to gradients and using Moments Accountant strategy.
result Demonstrates generation of high-quality synthetic data while maintaining privacy.
Study compares federated and centralized learning for patient data privacy.
problem Ensuring privacy in machine learning models trained on electronic health records.
method Examined private and non-private federated learning for clinical prediction tasks.
result Differentially private stochastic gradient descent is effective in centralized learning but challenging in federated learning.
Enhances generative model for clinical data privacy and accuracy.
problem Data privacy in electronic patient records.
method Improves a time-series generative model with privacy safeguards.
result DP-TimeGAN achieves a mean authenticity of 0.778 on the CKD dataset.
Tensor factorization has been demonstrated as an efficient approach for computational phenotyping, where massive electronic health records (EHRs) are converted to concise and meaningful clinical concepts. While distributing the tensor factorization tasks to local sites can avoid direct data sharing, it still requires t…
Large data collections required for the training of neural networks often contain sensitive information such as the medical histories of patients, and the privacy of the training data must be preserved. In this paper, we introduce a dropout technique that provides an elegant Bayesian interpretation to dropout, and show…
Study evaluates federated learning with differential privacy on MIMIC-III, improving model performance with careful parameter tuning.
problem Training machine learning models on privacy-sensitive data sets locked in healthcare facilities.
method Extensive evaluation of federated and differential privacy techniques on MIMIC-III dataset, analyzing various parameters.
result Careful parameter tuning is crucial for federated learning with differential privacy, especially for data distribution and communication strategies.
This paper addresses privacy in federated learning for medical imaging by estimating model uncertainty.
problem Privacy concerns in federated learning for medical imaging.
method Federated Learning (FL) for collaborative model training while preserving patient data privacy.
result Accurate uncertainty estimation in federated learning for medical imaging.
Paper shows Cox model optimisation leaks patient data in distributed learning.
problem Risk of patient data leakage in distributed learning models.
method Optimisation of Cox survival model using federated learning.
result Optimisation process can leak patient data, necessitating new validation methods.
New algorithms improve prediction with expert advice under local differential privacy.
problem Predicting expert advice with privacy constraints.
method Design of two new algorithms: RW-AdaBatch and RW-Meta, leveraging limited-switching behavior and random walks.
result RW-Meta outperforms classical and central DP algorithms by 1.5-3x on predicting hospital COVID patient densities.
Offline RL algorithms protect privacy while learning from sensitive data.
problem Learning sensitive data in financial, legal, and healthcare applications.
method Differential privacy guarantees for offline RL algorithms.
result Provable prevention of privacy risks with strong learning bounds.
Privacy-preserving synthetic data from EHRs for learning and inference.
problem Sharing sensitive EHR data while maintaining patient privacy.
method Differentially private normalizing flows for density estimation and variational inference.
result Privacy-preserving synthetic data can yield good utility at a reasonable privacy cost.
Paper addresses data heterogeneity in federated learning for CoxPH models in healthcare.
problem Data heterogeneity in federated learning of CoxPH models for healthcare.
method Feature-based clustering and event-based reporting strategy.
result Enhanced model accuracy and performance in federated survival analysis.
New private algorithm for sequential hypothesis testing with privacy and error rate guarantees.
problem Privacy protection in sequential hypothesis testing for sensitive data.
method Renyi differential privacy, Wald's Sequential Probability Ratio Test (SPRT).
result Private algorithm with strong privacy guarantees and theoretical performance analysis.
Machine learning models benefit from large and diverse datasets. Using such datasets, however, often requires trusting a centralized data aggregator. For sensitive applications like healthcare and finance this is undesirable as it could compromise patient privacy or divulge trade secrets. Recent advances in secure and …
Paper proposes sharing models instead of data for smart health predictions.
problem Sharing sensitive medical data is legally restricted and challenging.
method Train a teacher model on sensitive data, then transfer its knowledge to a student model without accessing original data.
result Student model mimics teacher model performance in making accurate predictions.
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and its variants have recently attracted intensive research interests due to their elegant theoretical foundation and excellent empirical performance as generative models. These tools provide a promising direction in the studies where data availability is limited. One common issue i…
Proposes a privacy-preserving method for survival function estimation.
problem Privacy leakage in survival function estimation using sensitive data.
method Differential privacy framework applied to Kaplan-Meier estimator and related metrics.
result The method provides utility and strong privacy guarantees with real-world data.
Generative models create artificial patient data for distributed analysis.
problem Privacy restrictions prevent pooling individual patient data for research.
method Deep Boltzmann machines (DBMs) and DataSHIELD software implementation.
result Patterns from real data can be recovered in artificial data sets.
Deep neural networks with their large number of parameters are highly flexible learning systems. The high flexibility in such networks brings with some serious problems such as overfitting, and regularization is used to address this problem. A currently popular and effective regularization technique for controlling the…
Patient notes contain a wealth of information of potentially great interest to medical investigators. However, to protect patients' privacy, Protected Health Information (PHI) must be removed from the patient notes before they can be legally released, a process known as patient note de-identification. The main objectiv…
We study the problem of privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) for ensemble methods, focusing our effort on random forests. In collaborative analysis, PPML attempts to solve the conflict between the need for data sharing and privacy. This is especially important in privacy sensitive applications such as learning pr…
Generates synthetic health data from patient visits.
problem Lack of longitudinal, event-based medical data.
method Transformed longitudinal data into summary statistics, trained GAN.
result Synthetic data closely resembles real data univariately.
Deep learning with medical data often requires larger samples sizes than are available at single providers. While data sharing among institutions is desirable to train more accurate and sophisticated models, it can lead to severe privacy concerns due the sensitive nature of the data. This problem has motivated a number…
Develops privacy-preserving methods for equivalence testing in healthcare.
problem Protecting patient data in healthcare studies.
method Differential privacy techniques for simulation-based calibration.
result Maintains type-I error control and comparable power to non-private methods.
Framework improves classifier calibration under differential privacy for domain shift.
problem Improving classifier calibration under domain shift with privacy constraints.
method Differential privacy framework for adapting recalibration algorithms.
result Novel accuracy temperature scaling algorithm outperforms existing methods on private datasets.
Study on protecting sensitive properties of datasets during analysis.
problem Ensuring privacy of sensitive properties in datasets.
method Proposes definitions and mechanisms for attribute privacy using the Pufferfish framework.
result Developed efficient and inefficient mechanisms for attribute privacy.
Federated Learning solves privacy and data distribution challenges in machine learning.
problem Privacy concerns and distributed data in machine learning.
method Federated Learning framework to handle privacy and distributed data.
result Solves privacy and data distribution challenges in machine learning.
Study on privacy-preserving health care models that sacrifice accuracy for data protection.
problem Privacy-preserving models in health care neglect data from the tails, reducing accuracy for small groups.
method Used state-of-the-art differentially private learning methods for clinical prediction tasks.
result Privacy-preserving models in health care exhibit steep tradeoffs between privacy and utility, and disproportionately influence large demographic groups.
A new COVID-19 CT dataset helps develop AI diagnosis models.
problem Lack of publicly available COVID-19 CT datasets due to privacy issues.
method Built an open-sourced COVID-CT dataset and developed AI diagnosis methods.
result Developed AI diagnosis models achieving high accuracy and performance.
Users of a personalised recommendation system face a dilemma: recommendations can be improved by learning from data, but only if the other users are willing to share their private information. Good personalised predictions are vitally important in precision medicine, but genomic information on which the predictions are…
Confidentiality of patient information is an essential part of Electronic Health Record System. Patient information, if exposed, can cause a serious damage to the privacy of individuals receiving healthcare. Hence it is important to remove such details from physician notes. A system is proposed which consists of a deep…
This paper improves privacy in federated learning without a trusted server.
problem Privacy in federated learning with silos that distrust each other.
method Introduces Inter-Silo Record-Level Differential Privacy (ISRL-DP) and accelerated algorithms for convex and smooth losses.
result Achieves optimal privacy and accuracy tradeoffs in federated learning.
Many reinforcement learning applications involve the use of data that is sensitive, such as medical records of patients or financial information. However, most current reinforcement learning methods can leak information contained within the (possibly sensitive) data on which they are trained. To address this problem, w…
Generative AI models improve clinical trial data by generating survival outcomes.
problem Generating valid survival outcomes for clinical trials with synthetic data.
method A variational autoencoder (VAE) that jointly generates mixed-type covariates and survival outcomes.
result The method outperforms GAN baselines on fidelity, utility, and privacy metrics.
GANs help create realistic synthetic health data, boosting medical research.
problem Challenges in creating realistic synthetic health data due to private patient data.
method Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to learn and produce synthetic health data.
result GANs can produce realistic synthetic health data, overcoming challenges in OHD.
Paper introduces differential pairwise privacy for secure metric learning.
problem Securely measuring similarities of individuals given sensitive pairwise data.
method Develops differential pairwise privacy (DPP) to protect sensitive pairwise data.
result Achieves pairwise data privacy without significant performance loss.
Federated ABC-GMM boosts classification performance in imbalanced clinical data.
problem Class imbalance and privacy concerns in federated learning for clinical data.
method Approximate Bayesian computation-based Gaussian Mixture Model (Federated ABC-GMM) for privacy-preserving oversampling.
result Federated ABC-GMM improves F1 score up to nearly ideal performance in imbalanced clinical data.
Catastrophic forgetting can be a significant problem for institutions that must delete historic data for privacy reasons. For example, hospitals might not be able to retain patient data permanently. But neural networks trained on recent data alone will tend to forget lessons learned on old data. We present a differenti…
Automated system extracts medication regimens from medical conversations.
problem Extract relevant medication information from medical conversations.
method QA task approach, combined QA and Information Extraction, data augmentation, public embeddings, pretraining.
result Improved accuracy in extracting dosage and frequency from 54.28 and 37.13 to 89.57 and 45.94.
Federated learning improves CRC grading accuracy and privacy.
problem Inter-observer variability and data privacy in CRC grading.
method Multi-scale federated learning framework integrating ResNetRS50.
result Framework achieves 83.5% accuracy, outperforming centralized models.