动态调整隐私保护,让医疗影像分割更准更稳
ADP-FL-MedSeg: Adaptive Differential Privacy for Federated Medical Segmentation Across Diverse Modalities

- 根据数据特点自适应调节隐私机制,平衡隐私与精度
- 在皮肤、肾脏和脑部肿瘤分割上显著提升边界清晰度和准确率
- 适合需要高隐私保障的跨机构医疗影像协作场景
大量医疗数据因隐私法规和机构限制难以集中使用。传统中心化模型训练常因成像协议差异和数据分布变化而泛化能力差。联邦学习可在不共享原始数据的情况下协作训练,但引入差分隐私会降低准确率、导致收敛不稳定。本文提出自适应差分隐私联邦学习(ADP-FL)框架,动态调整隐私机制,在保持严格隐私保障的前提下,显著提升分割精度与训练稳定性。在皮肤病变、3D CT肾肿瘤、多参数MRI脑肿瘤等多模态任务中,相比常规联邦学习和标准差分隐私方法,ADP-FL始终实现更高Dice分数、更好边界分割、更快收敛与更强稳定性,性能接近非私有联邦学习在相同隐私预算下的表现。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large volumes of medical data remain underutilized because centralizing distributed data is often infeasible due to strict privacy regulations and institutional constraints. In addition, models trained in centralized settings frequently fail to generalize across clinical sites because of heterogeneity in imaging protocols and continuously evolving data distributions arising from differences in scanners, acquisition parameters, and patient populations. Federated learning offers a promising solution by enabling collaborative model training without sharing raw data. However, incorporating differential privacy into federated learning, while essential for privacy guarantees, often leads to degraded accuracy, unstable convergence, and reduced generalization. In this work, we propose an adaptive differentially private federated learning (ADP-FL) framework for medical image segmentation that dynamically adjusts privacy mechanisms to better balance the privacy-utility trade-off. The proposed approach stabilizes training, significantly improves Dice scores and segmentation boundary quality, and maintains rigorous privacy guarantees. We evaluated ADP-FL across diverse imaging modalities and segmentation tasks, including skin lesion segmentation in dermoscopic images, kidney tumor segmentation in 3D CT scans, and brain tumor segmentation in multi-parametric MRI. Compared with conventional federated learning and standard differentially private federated learning, ADP-FL consistently achieves higher accuracy, improved boundary delineation, faster convergence, and greater training stability, with performance approaching that of non-private federated learning under the same privacy budgets. These results demonstrate the practical viability of ADP-FL for high-performance, privacy-preserving medical image segmentation in real-world federated settings.
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