Legal aspects of privacy-enhancing technologies in genome-wide association studies and their impact on performance and feasibility

A Brauneck, L Schmalhorst, S Weiss, L Baumbach… - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
Genomic data holds huge potential for medical progress but requires strict safety measures
due to its sensitive nature to comply with data protection laws. This conflict is especially …

[HTML][HTML] The FeatureCloud platform for federated learning in biomedicine: unified approach

J Matschinske, J Späth, M Bakhtiari, N Probul… - Journal of Medical …, 2023 - jmir.org
Background Machine learning and artificial intelligence have shown promising results in
many areas and are driven by the increasing amount of available data. However, these data …

Federated machine learning in data-protection-compliant research

A Brauneck, L Schmalhorst… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Federated machine learning in data-protection-compliant research | Nature Machine Intelligence
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AI in microbiome‐related healthcare

N Probul, Z Huang, CC Saak… - Microbial …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform clinical practice and healthcare.
Following impressive advancements in fields such as computer vision and medical imaging …

PPML-Omics: a privacy-preserving federated machine learning method protects patients' privacy in omic data

J Zhou, S Chen, Y Wu, H Li, B Zhang, L Zhou, Y Hu… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Modern machine learning models toward various tasks with omic data analysis give rise to
threats of privacy leakage of patients involved in those datasets. Here, we proposed a …

Genome interpretation in a federated learning context allows the multi-center exome-based risk prediction of Crohn's disease patients

D Raimondi, H Chizari, N Verplaetse, BS Löscher… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
High-throughput sequencing allowed the discovery of many disease variants, but nowadays
it is becoming clear that the abundance of genomics data mostly just moved the bottleneck …

SecureFedYJ: a safe feature Gaussianization protocol for Federated Learning

T Marchand, B Muzellec, C Beguier… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract The Yeo-Johnson (YJ) transformation is a standard parametrized per-feature
unidimensional transformation often used to Gaussianize features in machine learning. In …

Privacy-aware multi-institutional time-to-event studies

J Späth, J Matschinske, FK Kamanu… - PLOS Digital …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Clinical time-to-event studies are dependent on large sample sizes, often not available at a
single institution. However, this is countered by the fact that, particularly in the medical field …

Utility-preserving Federated Learning

R Nasirigerdeh, D Rueckert, G Kaissis - … of the 16th ACM Workshop on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We investigate the concept of utility-preserving federated learning (UPFL) in the context of
deep neural networks. We theoretically prove and experimentally validate that UPFL …

Federated privacy-protected meta-and mega-omics data analysis in multi-center studies with a fully open-source analytic platform

X Escriba-Montagut, Y Marcon… - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The importance of maintaining data privacy and complying with regulatory requirements is
highlighted especially when sharing omic data between different research centers. This …