Federated Learning: A new frontier in the exploration of multi-institutional medical imaging data

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Main Authors: Ciupek, Dominika, Malawski, Maciej, Pieciak, Tomasz
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author Ciupek, Dominika
Malawski, Maciej
Pieciak, Tomasz
author_facet Ciupek, Dominika
Malawski, Maciej
Pieciak, Tomasz
contents Artificial intelligence has transformed the perspective of medical imaging, leading to a genuine technological revolution in modern computer-assisted healthcare systems. However, ubiquitously featured deep learning (DL) systems require access to a considerable amount of data, facilitating proper knowledge extraction and generalization. Access to such extensive resources may be hindered due to the time and effort required to convey ethical agreements, set up and carry the acquisition procedures through, and manage the datasets adequately with a particular emphasis on proper anonymization. One of the pivotal challenges in the DL field is data integration from various sources acquired using different hardware vendors, diverse acquisition protocols, experimental setups, and even inter-operator variabilities. In this paper, we review the federated learning (FL) concept that fosters the integration of large-scale heterogeneous datasets from multiple institutions in training DL models. In contrast to a centralized approach, the decentralized FL procedure promotes training DL models while preserving data privacy at each institution involved. We formulate the FL principle and comprehensively review general and specialized medical imaging aggregation and learning algorithms, enabling the generation of a globally generalized model. We meticulously go through the challenges in constructing FL-based systems, such as data and model heterogeneities across the institutions, resilience to potential attacks on data privacy, and the variability in computational and communication resources among the entangled sites that might induce efficiency issues of the entire system. Finally, we explore the up-to-date open frameworks for rapid FL-based algorithm prototyping, comprehensively present real-world implementations of FL systems and shed light on future directions in this intensively growing field.
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spellingShingle Federated Learning: A new frontier in the exploration of multi-institutional medical imaging data
Ciupek, Dominika
Malawski, Maciej
Pieciak, Tomasz
Image and Video Processing
Medical Physics
Artificial intelligence has transformed the perspective of medical imaging, leading to a genuine technological revolution in modern computer-assisted healthcare systems. However, ubiquitously featured deep learning (DL) systems require access to a considerable amount of data, facilitating proper knowledge extraction and generalization. Access to such extensive resources may be hindered due to the time and effort required to convey ethical agreements, set up and carry the acquisition procedures through, and manage the datasets adequately with a particular emphasis on proper anonymization. One of the pivotal challenges in the DL field is data integration from various sources acquired using different hardware vendors, diverse acquisition protocols, experimental setups, and even inter-operator variabilities. In this paper, we review the federated learning (FL) concept that fosters the integration of large-scale heterogeneous datasets from multiple institutions in training DL models. In contrast to a centralized approach, the decentralized FL procedure promotes training DL models while preserving data privacy at each institution involved. We formulate the FL principle and comprehensively review general and specialized medical imaging aggregation and learning algorithms, enabling the generation of a globally generalized model. We meticulously go through the challenges in constructing FL-based systems, such as data and model heterogeneities across the institutions, resilience to potential attacks on data privacy, and the variability in computational and communication resources among the entangled sites that might induce efficiency issues of the entire system. Finally, we explore the up-to-date open frameworks for rapid FL-based algorithm prototyping, comprehensively present real-world implementations of FL systems and shed light on future directions in this intensively growing field.
title Federated Learning: A new frontier in the exploration of multi-institutional medical imaging data
topic Image and Video Processing
Medical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20107