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While data in healthcare is produced in quantities never imagined before, the feasibility of clinical studies is often hindered by the problem of data access and transfer, especially regarding privacy concerns. Federated learning allows privacy-preserving data analyses using decentralized optimization approaches keeping data securely decentralized. There are currently initiatives providing federated learning frameworks, which are however tailored to specific hardware and modeling approaches, and do not provide natively a deployable production-ready environment. To tackle this issue, herein we propose an open-source federated learning frontend framework with application in healthcare. Our framework is based on a general architecture accommodating for different models and optimization methods. We present software components for clients and central node, and we illustrate the workflow for deploying learning models. We finally provide a real-world application to the federated analysis of multi-centric brain imaging data.
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This work has been supported by the French government, through the 3IA Côte d’Azur Investments in the Future project managed by the National Research Agency (ANR) with the reference number ANR-19-P3IA-0002, and by the ANR JCJC project Fed-BioMed 19-CE45-0006-01. The project was also supported by the Inria Sophia Antipolis - Meediterraneee, “NEF” computation cluster.
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Silva, S., Altmann, A., Gutman, B., Lorenzi, M. (2020). Fed-BioMed: A General Open-Source Frontend Framework for Federated Learning in Healthcare. In: Albarqouni, S., et al. Domain Adaptation and Representation Transfer, and Distributed and Collaborative Learning. DART DCL 2020 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12444. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60548-3_20
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