Distributed Learning to Protect Privacy in Multi-centric Clinical Studies

Damiani, Andrea, Vallati, Mauro, Gatta, Roberto, Dinapoli, Nicola, Jochems, Arthur, Deist, Timo, van Soest, Johan, Dekker, Andre and Valentini, Vincenzo (2015) Distributed Learning to Protect Privacy in Multi-centric Clinical Studies. In: The 15th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Springer, Pavia, Italy, pp. 65-75. ISBN 9783319195513

PDF - Accepted Version Restricted to Repository staff only Download (624kB)

Abstract

Research in medicine has to deal with the growing amount of data about patients which are made available by modern technologies. All these data might be used to support statistical studies, and for identifying causal relations. To use these data which are spread across hospitals efficient merging techniques, as well as policies to deal with this sensitive information, are strongly needed. In this paper we introduce and empirically test a distributed learning approach, to train Support Vector Machines (SVM), that allows to overcome problems related to privacy and data being spread around. The introduced technique allows to train algorithms without sharing any patients-related information, ensuring privacy and avoids the development of merging tools. We tested this approach on a large dataset and we described results, in terms of convergence and performance; we also provide considerations about the features of an IT architecture designed to support distributed learning computations.

Item Type:	Book Chapter
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Schools:	School of Computing and Engineering > High-Performance Intelligent Computing > Planning, Autonomy and Representation of Knowledge School of Computing and Engineering > High-Performance Intelligent Computing > Planning, Autonomy and Representation of Knowledge
Related URLs:	Author Organisation
Depositing User:	Mauro Vallati
Date Deposited:	24 Mar 2015 16:05
Last Modified:	22 Dec 2016 19:48
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/23905

Downloads

Repository Staff Only: item control page

View Item