Federated Learning for Privacy Preserving in Healthcare Data Analysis
Atharva Pawar, Sweta Jain, Aryan Dhait, Atharva Nagbhidkar, Arya Narlawar · 2024
During this era of exponential growth in data volume, the most onerous challenge facing healthcare today is how to harness voluminous amounts of sensitive patient information to drive advances in medical research and improvement in patient care without ever moving this same data. Federated Learning thus provides a solution that enables decentralised machine learning and helps in collaborative model training without direct sharing of raw data. The present paper provides depth of coverage on the investments made by Federated Learning in healthcare and goes on to detail clearly the underlying concepts, model aggregation methodologies, and implementation with privacy-preserving research protocols. Putting forward the central advantages, such as strong data privacy preservation, the possibility of personalization in model training, and model development scalability with efficiency, the present paper marks Federated Learning as an unparalleled tool for healthcare data analysis. This study has conclusively identified the potential of federated learning to transform healthcare: secure, collaborative, and data-driven medical research with supreme improvement potential for patient outcomes.