articleScientific ReportsApr 16, 2025GOLD OA

Federated learning with differential privacy for breast cancer diagnosis enabling secure data sharing and model integrity

Vellore Institute of Technology University

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Abstract

In the digital age, privacy preservation is of paramount importance while processing health-related sensitive information. This paper explores the integration of Federated Learning (FL) and Differential Privacy (DP) for breast cancer detection, leveraging FL's decentralized architecture to enable collaborative model training across healthcare organizations without exposing raw patient data. To enhance privacy, DP injects statistical noise into the updates made by the model. This mitigates adversarial attacks and prevents data leakage. The proposed work uses the Breast Cancer Wisconsin Diagnostic dataset to address critical challenges such as data heterogeneity, privacy-accuracy trade-offs, and computational…

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Keywords
  • Computer science
  • Differential privacy
  • Raw data
  • Overhead (engineering)
  • Data sharing
  • Federated learning
  • Breast cancer
  • Information privacy
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