用安全计算保护隐私,精准识别极罕见病细胞亚群。
Privacy-Preserving Detection of Rare Disease-Associated Cell Subsets via Secure Multi-Party Computation
- 通过加密多方计算训练模型,数据全程不暴露。
- 在0.01%低频细胞下仍保持高准确率。
- 适合需要跨机构协作的生物医学隐私研究。
从高维单细胞数据中检测罕见疾病相关细胞亚群对理解白血病和病毒感染等疾病至关重要。CellCnn是一种专为此任务设计的卷积神经网络,在0.01%的低频率下仍能识别表型相关细胞群体。可靠训练此类模型需要比单个机构更大更多样化的患者队列,但现有隐私法规禁止共享原始单细胞数据。我们提出一种安全多方计算(MPC)框架,可在秘密共享数据上实现CellCnn的训练与推理,确保参与者和计算服务器均无法访问原始患者数据或中间值。在巨细胞病毒(CMV)和急性髓系白血病(AML)的基准数据集上评估,该方法在保持接近明文模型精度的同时,优于以往的隐私保护基线。与早期移除ReLU激活函数和偏置项的方法不同,本方法保留了这些关键组件,支持无需泄露原始数据的精确分析。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The detection of rare disease-associated cell subsets from high-dimensional single-cell measurements is critical for understanding diseases such as leukaemia and viral infections. CellCnn, a convolutional neural network (CNN) designed for this task, has demonstrated the ability to identify phenotype-associated cell populations at frequencies as low as 0.01\%. Training such models reliably requires patient cohorts that are larger and more diverse than any single institution can typically assemble, and the underlying single-cell data is too sensitive to share across institutional boundaries under existing privacy regulations. We propose a secure multi-party computation (MPC) framework that enables the training and inference of CellCnn entirely on secret-shared data. This ensures that neither the participants nor the computing servers ever observe raw patient data or intermediate values. Evaluated on benchmark single-cell datasets for cytomegalovirus infection (CMV) and acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), our implementation preserves accuracy close to its plaintext counterpart while outperforming the prior privacy-preserving baseline. In contrast to earlier privacy-preserving approaches that removed components such as ReLU activations and bias terms, our method retains these key parts of the CellCnn architecture and supports accurate analysis without exposing raw patient data.
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