FQPDR: Federated Quantum Neural Network for Privacy-preserving Early Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy

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Autores principales: De, Debashis, Pal, Mahua Nandy, Hazra, Dipankar
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author De, Debashis
Pal, Mahua Nandy
Hazra, Dipankar
author_facet De, Debashis
Pal, Mahua Nandy
Hazra, Dipankar
contents Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a common complication of diabetes that can lead to blindness of people. Detecting DR at the earliest stage is essential to prevent irreversible eye damage. Microaneurysm dots are the first signs of DR. As the dots are tiny and of low contrast, detecting mild DR is a very challenging task. Federated learning (FL) preserves data privacy, which is a major concern for medical image processing. FL is a collaborative learning method, which shares only the model parameters with a server, without sharing the patient data to a central server. Inspired by classical FL, we propose a federated learning-based quantum neural network (federated QNN) for this task. We implemented the models with limited samples and few learnable parameters from the E-ophtha and Retina MNIST datasets. The crossevaluation efficiency of the proposed federated quantum neural network system for privacy-preserving early detection of diabetic retinopathy (FQPDR) in Kaggle dataset images indicates the robustness of the light weight learning models. FQPDR performances are inspiring while considering existing non-FL and FL methods.
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spellingShingle FQPDR: Federated Quantum Neural Network for Privacy-preserving Early Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy
De, Debashis
Pal, Mahua Nandy
Hazra, Dipankar
Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a common complication of diabetes that can lead to blindness of people. Detecting DR at the earliest stage is essential to prevent irreversible eye damage. Microaneurysm dots are the first signs of DR. As the dots are tiny and of low contrast, detecting mild DR is a very challenging task. Federated learning (FL) preserves data privacy, which is a major concern for medical image processing. FL is a collaborative learning method, which shares only the model parameters with a server, without sharing the patient data to a central server. Inspired by classical FL, we propose a federated learning-based quantum neural network (federated QNN) for this task. We implemented the models with limited samples and few learnable parameters from the E-ophtha and Retina MNIST datasets. The crossevaluation efficiency of the proposed federated quantum neural network system for privacy-preserving early detection of diabetic retinopathy (FQPDR) in Kaggle dataset images indicates the robustness of the light weight learning models. FQPDR performances are inspiring while considering existing non-FL and FL methods.
title FQPDR: Federated Quantum Neural Network for Privacy-preserving Early Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy
topic Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08324