Federated learning enables big data for rare cancer boundary detection.

Pati, Sarthak; Baid, Ujjwal; Edwards, Brandon; Sheller, Micah; Wang, Shih-Han; Reina, G Anthony; Foley, Patrick; Gruzdev, Alexey; Karkada, Deepthi; Davatzikos, Christos; Sako, Chiharu; Ghodasara, Satyam; Bilello, Michel; Mohan, Suyash; Vollmuth, Philipp; Brugnara, Gianluca; Preetha, Chandrakanth J; Sahm, Felix; Maier-Hein, Klaus; Zenk, Maximilian; ... (2022). Federated learning enables big data for rare cancer boundary detection. Nature communications, 13(1), p. 7346. Nature Publishing Group 10.1038/s41467-022-33407-5

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Although machine learning (ML) has shown promise across disciplines, out-of-sample generalizability is concerning. This is currently addressed by sharing multi-site data, but such centralization is challenging/infeasible to scale due to various limitations. Federated ML (FL) provides an alternative paradigm for accurate and generalizable ML, by only sharing numerical model updates. Here we present the largest FL study to-date, involving data from 71 sites across 6 continents, to generate an automatic tumor boundary detector for the rare disease of glioblastoma, reporting the largest such dataset in the literature (n = 6, 314). We demonstrate a 33% delineation improvement for the surgically targetable tumor, and 23% for the complete tumor extent, over a publicly trained model. We anticipate our study to: 1) enable more healthcare studies informed by large diverse data, ensuring meaningful results for rare diseases and underrepresented populations, 2) facilitate further analyses for glioblastoma by releasing our consensus model, and 3) demonstrate the FL effectiveness at such scale and task-complexity as a paradigm shift for multi-site collaborations, alleviating the need for data-sharing.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Haematology, Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Laboratory Medicine and Hospital Pharmacy (DOLS) > Clinic of Radiation Oncology
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Radiology, Neuroradiology and Nuclear Medicine (DRNN) > Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology
10 Strategic Research Centers > ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research

UniBE Contributor:

McKinley, Richard Iain, Slotboom, Johannes, Radojewski, Piotr, Meier, Raphael, Wiest, Roland Gerhard Rudi, Reyes, Mauricio

Subjects:

500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

2041-1723

Publisher:

Nature Publishing Group

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

06 Dec 2022 10:52

Last Modified:

27 Jun 2023 09:01

Publisher DOI:

10.1038/s41467-022-33407-5

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PubMed ID:

36470898

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/175528

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/175528

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