针对医疗数据异构与多目标冲突,提出可个性化协同训练框架
FedCARE: A Multi-Objective Personalised Federated Learning Framework for Smart Healthcare

- 分两阶段训练:先共享共性特征学全局模型,再用私有特征微调本地模型
- 在真实医疗数据集上,最高提升12.5%的AUROC,MAE降低32.0%
- 适合需兼顾不同医院临床目标的智能医疗协同建模场景
联邦学习(FL)可在不集中敏感患者数据的前提下,实现分布式医疗机构间的协作建模。然而,真实医疗联邦普遍存在非独立同分布(non-IID)数据、临床目标异构及部分重叠的特征空间问题。不同医院可能追求互斥的目标,如死亡风险预测、再入院率降低或住院时长估计,同时保留无法共享的机构特异性临床特征。现有个性化联邦学习方法主要解决统计异构性,而多目标联邦学习通常仅学习共享全局模型,缺乏客户端自适应能力。为此,我们提出 extbf{FedCARE},一种面向智慧医疗的多目标个性化联邦学习框架。该框架采用两阶段训练策略:第一阶段通过帕累托驱动的多目标联邦优化,从共性临床特征中学习共享全局主干;第二阶段,各客户端独立使用私有特征和本地临床目标对共享主干进行微调,实现机构级个性化,且无额外通信开销。我们在墨尔本研究云的云端客户端-服务器联邦部署中实现 FedCARE,并在两个真实医疗数据集 MIMIC-III 与 Diabetes 130-US Hospitals 上评估。实验结果表明,FedCARE 持续优于标准联邦学习、多目标联邦学习及个性化联邦学习基线,在多个任务上达到最高 12.5% AUROC 提升和 32.0% MAE 降低,显著优于 FedAvg。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed healthcare institutions without centralising sensitive patient data. However, real-world healthcare federations are often characterised not only by non-IID data, but also by heterogeneous clinical objectives and partially overlapping feature spaces. Different hospitals may optimise distinct and potentially conflicting objectives, such as mortality risk prediction, readmission reduction, or length-of-stay estimation, while also retaining institution-specific clinical features that cannot be shared with other participants. Existing personalised FL methods mainly address statistical heterogeneity, whereas multi-objective FL approaches typically learn a shared global model without explicit client-level adaptation. To address these limitations, we propose \textbf{FedCARE}, a multi-objective personalised FL framework for smart healthcare services. FedCARE follows a two-stage training strategy. First, it learns a shared global backbone from common clinical features using Pareto-driven multi-objective federated optimisation. Second, each client independently fine-tunes the shared backbone using its private features and local clinical objectives, enabling institution-specific personalisation without additional communication overhead. We implement FedCARE in a cloud-based client-server federated deployment on the Melbourne Research Cloud and evaluate it on two real-world healthcare datasets, MIMIC-III and Diabetes 130-US Hospitals. Experimental results show that FedCARE consistently outperforms standard FL, multi-objective FL, and personalised FL baselines, achieving up to 12.5% AUROC improvement and 32.0% MAE reduction over FedAvg.
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