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Review of Federated Learning in Medical Image Processing

LIU Yuming, DAI Yu, CHEN Gongping   

  1. College of Artificial Intelligence,Nankai University,Tianjin 300350,China
  • Received:2023-12-07 Revised:2024-05-07 Online:2025-01-15 Published:2025-01-09
  • About author:LIU Yuming,born in 1999,postgra-duate,is a member of CCF(No.R7056G).His main research interests include fe-derated learning and image segmentation.
    DAI Yu,born in 1981,professor,is a member of CCF(No.L4837M).His main research interests include image processing and intelligent technology for surgical robot.
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1913207)and Tianjin Research Innovation Project for Postgra-duate Students(2022BKY004).

Abstract: In the medical field,due to patient privacy concerns,it is difficult to collect and label images,which brings great difficulties to the training and deployment of deep learning models.As a distributed learning framework that can effectively protect data privacy,federated learning can conduct joint modeling on the basis that participants do not share data,and technically break the data island.With these advantages,it has been widely used in many industries.Due to the high degree of compliance with the needs of medical image processing,many federated learning research works applied to medical image processing have emerged in recent years.However,most of the new methods have not been summarized and analyzed,which is not conducive to further exploration.This paper gives a brief introduction to federated learning,lists some of its applications in medical image processing,and classifies and summarizes the existing research according to the improvement direction.Finally,the problems and challenges of federated learning in medical image are discussed,and future research directions are prospected,hoping to provide some help for subsequent research.

Key words: Federated learning, Medical image, Deep learning, Image processing, Distributed learning, Privacy protection

CLC Number: 

  • TP391
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