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FedContrast-GPA: Heterogeneous Federated Optimization via Local Contrastive Learning and Global Process-Aware Aggregation

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Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2023 (MICCAI 2023)

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Abstract

Federated learning is a promising strategy for performing privacy-preserving, distributed learning for medical image segmentation. However, the data-level heterogeneity as well as system-level heterogeneity makes it challenging to optimize. In this paper, we propose to improve Federated optimization via local Contrastive learning and Global Process-aware Aggregation (referred as FedContrast-GPA), aiming to jointly address both data-level and system-level heterogeneity issues. In specific, To address data-level heterogeneity, we propose to learn a unified latent feature space via an intra-client and inter-client local prototype based contrastive learning scheme. Among which, intra-client contrastive learning is adopted to improve the discriminative ability of learned feature embedding at each client, while inter-client contrastive learning is introduced to achieve cross-client distribution perception and alignment in a privacy preserving manner. To address system-level heterogeneity, we further propose a simple yet effective process-aware aggregation scheme to achieve effective straggler mitigation. Experimental results on six prostate segmentation datasets demonstrate large performance boost over existing state-of-the-art methods.

This study was partially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China via project U20A20199 and 62201341.

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Zhou, Q., Zheng, G. (2023). FedContrast-GPA: Heterogeneous Federated Optimization via Local Contrastive Learning and Global Process-Aware Aggregation. In: Greenspan, H., et al. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2023. MICCAI 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14221. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43895-0_62

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