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Safeguarding Patient Data-Sharing: Blockchain-Enabled Federated Learning in Medical Diagnostics
Myrzashova, Raushan Alsamhi, Saeed Hamood Hawbani, Ammar Curry, Edward Guizani, Mohsen Wei, Xi
Myrzashova, Raushan
Alsamhi, Saeed Hamood
Hawbani, Ammar
Curry, Edward
Guizani, Mohsen
Wei, Xi
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Machine Learning
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2025
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English
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Medical healthcare centers are envisioned as a promising paradigm to handle vast data for various disease diagnoses using artificial intelligence. Traditional Machine Learning algorithms have been used for years, putting the sensitivity of patients' medical data privacy at risk. Collaborative data training, where multiple hospitals (nodes) train and share encrypted federated models, solves the issue of data leakage and unites resources of small and large hospitals from distant areas. This study introduces an innovative framework that leverages blockchain-based Federated Learning to identify 15 distinct lung diseases, ensuring the preservation of privacy and security. The proposed model has been trained on the NIH Chest Ray dataset (112,120 X-Ray images), tested, and evaluated, achieving test accuracy of 92.86%, a latency of 43.518625 ms, and a throughput of 10,034,017 bytes/s. Furthermore, we expose our framework blockchain to stringent empirical tests against leading cyber threats to evaluate its robustness. With resilience metrics consistently nearing 87% against three evaluated cyberattacks, the proposed framework demonstrates significant robustness and potential for healthcare applications. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper on the practical implementation of blockchain-empowered FL with such data and several diseases, including multiple disease coexistence detection.
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R. Myrzashova, S. H. Alsamhi, A. Hawbani, E. Curry, M. Guizani, and X. Wei, “Safeguarding Patient Data-Sharing: Blockchain-Enabled Federated Learning in Medical Diagnostics,” IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 176–189, Jan. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TSUSC.2024.3409329.
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IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing
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Adversarial attacks, blockchain, cybersecurity, data sharing, federated learning, lung disease, multi-label, remote healthcare, X-ray
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IEEE