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Dynamic-Fusion-Based Federated Learning for COVID-19 Detection
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Medical diagnostic image analysis (e.g., CT scan or X-Ray) using machine learning is an efficient and accurate way to detect COVID-19 infections. However, the sharing of diagnostic images across medical institutions is usually prohibited due to patients' privacy concerns. This causes the issue of insufficient data sets for training the image classification model. Federated learning is an emerging privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm that produces an unbiased global model based on the received local model updates trained by clients without exchanging clients' local data. Nevertheless, the default setting of federated learning introduces a huge communication cost of transferring model updates and can hardly ensure model performance when severe data heterogeneity of clients exists. To improve communication efficiency and model performance, in this article, we propose a novel dynamic fusion-based federated learning approach for medical diagnostic image analysis to detect COVID-19 infections. First, we design an architecture for dynamic fusion-based federated learning systems to analyze medical diagnostic images. Furthermore, we present a dynamic fusion method to dynamically decide the participating clients according to their local model performance and schedule the model fusion based on participating clients' training time. In addition, we summarize a category of medical diagnostic image data sets for COVID-19 detection, which can be used by the machine learning community for image analysis. The evaluation results show that the proposed approach is feasible and performs better than the default setting of federated learning in terms of model performance, communication efficiency, and fault tolerance.
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“Similarly, Zhang et al. [24] and Yan et al. [29] used X-ray and CT image data for different Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures in FL settings.”
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“Moreover, Zhang et al. [24] proposed a FL oriented COVID-19 detection model where chest X-ray and CT images were considered from three datasets, Qatar-Dhaka data, COVID-CT, and Figure 1 dataset.”
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“Next, within the 10,000 sample range, seven papers [21], [24], [25], [27], [28], [31] and [32] used data samples between 2,109 and 6,284 and this number is quite good.”
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“Only two articles we defined as VFL; [24] have taken three datasets, two X-ray and one CT image based.”
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“[24] have taken three datasets, two X-ray and one CT image based.In the article the authors combined the both types of images and used them to train and test models.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Zhang, W., Zhou, T., Lu, Q., Wang, X., Zhu, C., Sun, H., Wang, Z., Lo, S. K., & Wang, F.-Y.
- Affiliations
- China University of Petroleum, East China (CN)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (AU)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Southern University of Science and Technology (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Zhang, Weishan
- ORCID
- Venue
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal
- Published
- 2021-11-01
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 21
- Pages
- 15884-15891
- ISSN
- 2327-4662 (ISSN-L)
- 2372-2541
- PMC
- PMC9128757
- OpenAlex
- W3127299377
- Cited by
- 329
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 25 · 2025: 49 · 2024: 67 · 2023: 86 · 2022: 63 · 2021: 36
- FWCI
- 22.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- Locations
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (62072469)
- National Key Research and Development Program (2018YFE0116700, 2020YFB2104301)
- Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (ZR2019MF049)
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2015020031)
- Project “PCL Future Greater-Bay Area Network Facilities for Large-Scale Experiments and Applications” (LZC0019)
- Special Project of West Coast Artificial Intelligence Technology Innovation Center (2019-1-5, 2019-1-6)
- Opening Project of Shanghai Trusted Industrial Control Platform (TICPSH202003015-ZC)
- Project “Beihang Beidou Technological Achievements Transformation and Industrialization Funds” (BARI2005)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Keywords
- federated learning, dynamic fusion, COVID-19 detection, computed tomography, X-ray images, communication efficiency, data heterogeneity, client selection, privacy-preserving machine learning, fault tolerance, medical image dataset
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