医疗联邦学习存严重隐私泄露风险,可被攻击者复原病患影像。
In-depth Analysis of Privacy Threats in Federated Learning for Medical Data
- 提出MedPFL框架系统评估医疗联邦学习的隐私风险
- 实验证明攻击者能高精度重建私密医学图像
- 揭示加噪防御在医疗场景中可能失效,适合安全研究者
联邦学习在医疗影像分析中被视为保护患者隐私的有效方法,但最新研究发现其默认设置可能意外暴露训练数据。本文针对医疗领域联邦学习的隐私风险提出三项原创贡献:首先,构建了全面的MedPFL框架,用于分析隐私威胁并制定有效缓解策略;其次,通过实证分析表明,在处理医学图像时,攻击者可实施隐私攻击并准确重构私密图像;第三,指出添加随机噪声这一常见防御机制在医疗图像场景下可能无效,凸显医疗数据隐私保护的独特挑战。论文在多个基准医学图像数据集上开展广泛实验,深入分析并缓解联邦学习中的隐私风险。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Federated learning is emerging as a promising machine learning technique in the medical field for analyzing medical images, as it is considered an effective method to safeguard sensitive patient data and comply with privacy regulations. However, recent studies have revealed that the default settings of federated learning may inadvertently expose private training data to privacy attacks. Thus, the intensity of such privacy risks and potential mitigation strategies in the medical domain remain unclear. In this paper, we make three original contributions to privacy risk analysis and mitigation in federated learning for medical data. First, we propose a holistic framework, MedPFL, for analyzing privacy risks in processing medical data in the federated learning environment and developing effective mitigation strategies for protecting privacy. Second, through our empirical analysis, we demonstrate the severe privacy risks in federated learning to process medical images, where adversaries can accurately reconstruct private medical images by performing privacy attacks. Third, we illustrate that the prevalent defense mechanism of adding random noises may not always be effective in protecting medical images against privacy attacks in federated learning, which poses unique and pressing challenges related to protecting the privacy of medical data. Furthermore, the paper discusses several unique research questions related to the privacy protection of medical data in the federated learning environment. We conduct extensive experiments on several benchmark medical image datasets to analyze and mitigate the privacy risks associated with federated learning for medical data.
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