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Federated learning for digital healthcare: concepts, applications, frameworks, and challenges

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Various hospitals have adopted digital technologies in the healthcare sector for various healthcare-related applications. Due to the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic, digital transformation has taken place in many domains, especially in the healthcare domain; it has streamlined various healthcare activities. With the advancement in technology concept of telemedicine evolved over the years and led to personalized healthcare and drug discovery. The use of machine learning (ML) technique in healthcare enables healthcare professionals to make a more accurate and early diagnosis. Training these ML models requires a massive amount of data, including patients’ personal data, that need to be protected from unethical use. Sharing these data to train ML models may violate data privacy. A distributed ML paradigm called federated learning (FL) has allowed different medical research institutions, hospitals, and healthcare devices to train ML models without sharing raw data. This survey paper overviews existing research work on FL-related use cases and applications. This paper also discusses the state-of-the-art tools and techniques available for FL research, current shortcomings, and future challenges in using FL in healthcare.

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Sachin, D.N., Annappa, B. & Ambesange, S. Federated learning for digital healthcare: concepts, applications, frameworks, and challenges. Computing 106, 3113–3150 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-024-01317-7

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