arXiv:2608.01094cs.CV2026-08

提出医疗影像联邦遗忘基准Lethe,评估12种方法在多种任务中的遗忘效果。

Lethe: How Hard Is It to Forget? A Benchmark for Federated Unlearning in Medical Imaging

论文配图:Lethe: How Hard Is It to Forget? A Benchmark for Federated Unlearning in Medical Imaging
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  • 构建医学影像联邦遗忘评测基准,覆盖8类任务与3种遗忘粒度。
  • 发现遗忘难度决定方法优劣,简单遗忘任务中各方法表现接近。
  • 跨中心泛化任务中,遗忘单个机构几乎不影响性能,需重点消除成员身份痕迹。

联邦学习使医疗影像模型可在多家医院间协同训练,而隐私法规(如GDPR的被遗忘权)要求从模型中移除特定医院、类别或患者的影响力,形成联邦遗忘问题。这一需求在医学领域尤为迫切,因患者撤回同意或医院退出合作。然而现有遗忘研究多基于自然图像,其数据异质性与任务结构与临床数据差异显著,导致方法迁移性不明,且缺乏针对临床数据的统一评测协议。本文提出Lethe基准,评估12种方法在8类任务(包括分类、分割、去噪、跨模态生成、视觉-语言问答等)上的表现,涵盖三种遗忘粒度,并以重训练的金标准为参照,评估其在效用、隐私与成本方面的表现。核心发现是:方法间的差异主要由遗忘请求的难易程度决定,而非方法本身;文献中常见的简单遗忘任务下,各方法在保持效用方面无明显区分;而在多数需跨中心泛化的医疗任务中,遗忘单一参与方几乎不降低任务性能,关键在于消除残留的成员身份信号。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Federated learning enables medical-imaging models to be trained across hospitals, and privacy law, most explicitly the GDPR ``right to be forgotten'', turns removing a hospital's, a class's, or a patient's influence from such a model into a federated unlearning problem. This need is most acute in medicine, where patients withdraw consent and hospitals leave collaborations. Yet nearly all unlearning evidence comes from natural images, whose heterogeneity and task structure differ sharply from clinical data, so it is unclear whether existing methods transfer, and no shared protocol covers clinical data. We present Lethe, a benchmark for federated unlearning in medical imaging. It evaluates twelve methods across eight task families, from classification and segmentation to denoising, cross-modality synthesis, and vision-language question answering, at three forgetting granularities and against a retrained gold standard on utility, privacy, and cost. The central result is that what separates methods is the difficulty of the forgetting request, not the method itself. The easy removals that dominate the literature leave the methods that preserve utility indistinguishable, while only hard ones separate them. More striking, on the many medical tasks that generalize across sites, forgetting a client barely changes task performance, leaving residual membership as the signal that must be erased.

联邦学习医疗影像遗忘机制隐私保护

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