Abstract
Applied deep learning technology in digital health care service is a potential way to tackle many issues that hospitals face, such as over health care requests, lack of doctors, and patient overload. But a conventional deep learning model needs to compute raw medical data for evaluating health information, which raises considerable concern about data privacy. This paper proposes an approach using homomorphic encryption to encrypt raw data to protect privacy while deep learning models can still perform computations over encrypted data. This approach can be applied to almost any digital health care service in which data providers want to ensure that no one can use their data without permission. We will focus on a particular use case (predict mental health based on phone usage routine) to represent the approach’s applicability. Our encryption model’s accuracy is similar to the non-encryption model’s (only 0.01% difference) and has practical performance.
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This research is funded by Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM) under grant number NCM2021-20-02. We acknowledge Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), VNU-HCM, for supporting this study. The authors would also like to thank Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Ky for his comments helping to improve the manuscript of this work significantly.
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Nguyen-Van, T. et al. (2022). A Homomorphic Encryption Approach for Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning in Digital Health Care Service. In: Nguyen, N.T., Tran, T.K., Tukayev, U., Hong, TP., Trawiński, B., Szczerbicki, E. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13758. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21967-2_42
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