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Main Authors: Das, Badhan Chandra, Amini, M. Hadi, Wu, Yanzhao
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06643
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author Das, Badhan Chandra
Amini, M. Hadi
Wu, Yanzhao
author_facet Das, Badhan Chandra
Amini, M. Hadi
Wu, Yanzhao
contents Federated learning (FL) is gaining increasing popularity in the medical domain for analyzing medical images, which is considered an effective technique to safeguard sensitive patient data and comply with privacy regulations. However, several recent studies have revealed that the default settings of FL may leak private training data under privacy attacks. Thus, it is still unclear whether and to what extent such privacy risks of FL exist in the medical domain, and if so, "how to mitigate such risks?". In this paper, first, we propose a holistic framework for Medical data Privacy risk analysis and mitigation in Federated Learning (MedPFL) to analyze privacy risks and develop effective mitigation strategies in FL for protecting private medical data. Second, we demonstrate the substantial privacy risks of using FL to process medical images, where adversaries can easily perform privacy attacks to reconstruct private medical images accurately. Third, we show that the defense approach of adding random noises may not always work effectively to protect medical images against privacy attacks in FL, which poses unique and pressing challenges associated with medical data for privacy protection.
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spellingShingle Privacy Risks Analysis and Mitigation in Federated Learning for Medical Images
Das, Badhan Chandra
Amini, M. Hadi
Wu, Yanzhao
Machine Learning
Federated learning (FL) is gaining increasing popularity in the medical domain for analyzing medical images, which is considered an effective technique to safeguard sensitive patient data and comply with privacy regulations. However, several recent studies have revealed that the default settings of FL may leak private training data under privacy attacks. Thus, it is still unclear whether and to what extent such privacy risks of FL exist in the medical domain, and if so, "how to mitigate such risks?". In this paper, first, we propose a holistic framework for Medical data Privacy risk analysis and mitigation in Federated Learning (MedPFL) to analyze privacy risks and develop effective mitigation strategies in FL for protecting private medical data. Second, we demonstrate the substantial privacy risks of using FL to process medical images, where adversaries can easily perform privacy attacks to reconstruct private medical images accurately. Third, we show that the defense approach of adding random noises may not always work effectively to protect medical images against privacy attacks in FL, which poses unique and pressing challenges associated with medical data for privacy protection.
title Privacy Risks Analysis and Mitigation in Federated Learning for Medical Images
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06643