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ArticleNature communications2024

Data encoding for healthcare data democratization and information leakage prevention.

Anshul Thakur, Tingting Zhu, Vinayak Abrol, Jacob Armstrong, Yujiang Wang, David A Clifton

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 authors.

Anshul ThakurDepartment of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, OX3 7DQ, Oxfordshire, UK. anshul.thakur@eng.ox.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7006-1947
Tingting Zhu *Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, OX3 7DQ, Oxfordshire, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1552-5630
Vinayak Abrol *Infosys Centre for AI, IIIT Delhi, Delhi, India.
Jacob ArmstrongDepartment of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, OX3 7DQ, Oxfordshire, UK.
Yujiang WangDepartment of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, OX3 7DQ, Oxfordshire, UK. yujiang.wang@oscar.ox.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6220-029X
David A CliftonDepartment of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, OX3 7DQ, Oxfordshire, UK.

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The lack of data democratization and information leakage from trained models hinder the development and acceptance of robust deep learning-based healthcare solutions. This paper argues that irreversible data encoding can provide an effective solution to achieve data democratization without violating the privacy constraints imposed on healthcare data and clinical models. An ideal encoding framework transforms the data into a new space where it is imperceptible to a manual or computational inspection. However, encoded data should preserve the semantics of the original data such that deep learning models can be trained effectively. This paper hypothesizes the characteristics of the desired encoding framework and then exploits random projections and random quantum encoding to realize this framework for dense and longitudinal or time-series data. Experimental evaluation highlights that models trained on encoded time-series data effectively uphold the information bottleneck principle and hence, exhibit lesser information leakage from trained models.

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PMID38383571
PMCPMC10882022

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