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Computer Vision 2025-03-28

Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving Radiology AI

Research on federated learning approaches that enable multi-site AI model training without sharing patient data, addressing privacy regulations while building robust radiology AI across India's diverse hospital network.

5C Network Research Team · arXiv · DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2503.22176

Key Findings

  • Federated training across multiple Indian hospital sites achieves comparable accuracy to centralized training without data sharing
  • AI-driven pathology detection and osteoarthritis grading benefits from multi-site data diversity without compromising patient privacy
  • Framework addresses Indian data protection regulations while enabling collaborative AI development
  • Multi-site validation demonstrates generalizability across different imaging equipment and patient populations
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The methods described here are part of Bionic, the AI layer that pre-reads every study 5C reports — 15,000+ scans a day across 2,000+ facilities, each one signed by an NMC-registered radiologist.