Trust Aware Federated Learning for Secure Bone Healing Stage Interpretation in e-Health

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Autores principales: Shepherd, Paul, Dagiuklas, Tasos, Alkan, Bugra, Bastos, Joaquim, Rodriguez, Jonathan
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Publicado: 2026
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author Shepherd, Paul
Dagiuklas, Tasos
Alkan, Bugra
Bastos, Joaquim
Rodriguez, Jonathan
author_facet Shepherd, Paul
Dagiuklas, Tasos
Alkan, Bugra
Bastos, Joaquim
Rodriguez, Jonathan
contents This paper presents a trust aware federated learning (FL) framework for interpreting bone healing stages using spectral features derived from frequency response data. The primary objective is to address the challenge posed by either unreliable or adversarial participants in distributed medical sensing environments. The framework employs a multi-layer perceptron model trained across simulated clients using the Flower FL framework. The proposed approach integrates an Adaptive Trust Score Scaling and Filtering (ATSSSF) mechanism with exponential moving average (EMA) smoothing to assess, validate and filter client contributions.Two trust score smoothing strategies have been investigated, one with a fixed factor and another that adapts according to trust score variability. Clients with low trust are excluded from aggregation and readmitted once their reliability improves, ensuring model integrity while maintaining inclusivity. Standard classification metrics have been used to compare the performance of ATSSSF with the baseline Federated Averaging strategy. Experimental results demonstrate that adaptive trust management can improve both training stability and predictive performance by mitigating the negative effects of compromised clients while retaining robust detection capabilities. The work establishes the feasibility for adaptive trust mechanisms in federated medical sensing and identifies extension to clinical cross silo aggregation as a future research direction.
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spellingShingle Trust Aware Federated Learning for Secure Bone Healing Stage Interpretation in e-Health
Shepherd, Paul
Dagiuklas, Tasos
Alkan, Bugra
Bastos, Joaquim
Rodriguez, Jonathan
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
This paper presents a trust aware federated learning (FL) framework for interpreting bone healing stages using spectral features derived from frequency response data. The primary objective is to address the challenge posed by either unreliable or adversarial participants in distributed medical sensing environments. The framework employs a multi-layer perceptron model trained across simulated clients using the Flower FL framework. The proposed approach integrates an Adaptive Trust Score Scaling and Filtering (ATSSSF) mechanism with exponential moving average (EMA) smoothing to assess, validate and filter client contributions.Two trust score smoothing strategies have been investigated, one with a fixed factor and another that adapts according to trust score variability. Clients with low trust are excluded from aggregation and readmitted once their reliability improves, ensuring model integrity while maintaining inclusivity. Standard classification metrics have been used to compare the performance of ATSSSF with the baseline Federated Averaging strategy. Experimental results demonstrate that adaptive trust management can improve both training stability and predictive performance by mitigating the negative effects of compromised clients while retaining robust detection capabilities. The work establishes the feasibility for adaptive trust mechanisms in federated medical sensing and identifies extension to clinical cross silo aggregation as a future research direction.
title Trust Aware Federated Learning for Secure Bone Healing Stage Interpretation in e-Health
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06646