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Federated Tensor Factorization for Computational Phenotyping
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Tensor factorization models offer an effective approach to convert massive electronic health records into meaningful clinical concepts (phenotypes) for data analysis. These models need a large amount of diverse samples to avoid population bias. An open challenge is how to derive phenotypes jointly across multiple hospitals, in which direct patient-level data sharing is not possible (e.g., due to institutional policies). In this paper, we developed a novel solution to enable federated tensor factorization for computational phenotyping without sharing patient-level data. We developed secure data harmonization and federated computation procedures based on alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). Using this method, the multiple hospitals iteratively update tensors and transfer secure summarized information to a central server, and the server aggregates the information to generate phenotypes. We demonstrated with real medical datasets that our method resembles the centralized training model (based on combined datasets) in terms of accuracy and phenotypes discovery while respecting privacy.
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- Authors
- Kim, Y., Sun, J., Yu, H., & Jiang, X.
- Affiliations
- Pohang University of Science and Technology (KR)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2017-08-04
- Volume
- 2017
- Pages
- 887-895
- PMC
- PMC5652331
- OpenAlex
- W2606065148
- Cited by
- 128
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 3.24
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Ministry of Science ICT and Future Planning (2014-0-00147)
- National Institutes of Health (R01GM118609, R21LM012060)
- National Research Foundation of Korea (2016R1E1A1A01942642)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning in Healthcare
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Computational Mathematics › Tensor decomposition and applications
- Keywords
- computational phenotyping, electronic health records, data privacy, data harmonization, alternating direction method of multipliers, population bias, privacy-preserving machine learning
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