Multi-Level Analyzation of Imbalance to Resolve Non-IID-Ness in Federated Learning
arXiv:2606. 10250v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Class imbalance is a common problem in deep learning that severely degrades performance.
arXiv:2607. 20641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clinical institutions to collaboratively train a shared disease classifier without centralizing patient data.
arXiv:2606. 10250v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Class imbalance is a common problem in deep learning that severely degrades performance.
The paper evaluates federated learning with Low‑Rank Adaptation (LoRA) for fine‑tuning the BiomedCLIP vision‑language model on chest X‑ray classification across four international cohorts. Federated LoRA improves shared‑class AUC from 0.687 to 0.802, outperforming isolated single‑cohort training and approaching a centralized reference. The study shows that SVD‑based product‑space aggregation (FlexLoRA) is crucial for performance, while FedProx offers no advantage over FedAvg in this setting.
arXiv:2605. 23995v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) is increasingly used in medical image analysis to reduce dependence on costly expert annotations by learning transferable representations from unlabeled data.
arXiv:2608. 19788v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Trustworthy multimodal fusion in clinical settings requires handling incomplete and heterogeneous modality subsets across institutions, where privacy constraints prohibit centralized data sharing.
OmniMed‑FL is a multimodal federated learning framework that fuses chest radiographs and synthetic patient notes to classify five clinical conditions. The study benchmarks eight fusion strategies, three initializations, and four missing‑text imputation rules across 3–20 hospital clients under non‑IID Dirichlet partitioning, showing that federated approaches (FedAvg, FedProx, SCAFFOLD‑AdamW) outperform local‑only training. Multimodal fusion consistently improves performance, achieving macro‑F1 scores up to 0.956 on the synthetic corpus and 0.906 on the radiograph corpus.
arXiv:2606. 07141v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models trained for clinical disease inference are trained on patient data, which may include sensitive and private information, and data owners may request the removal of their data from a trained model due to privacy or copyright concerns.
arXiv:2408.07988v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite significant research efforts and advancements, cancer remains a leading cause of mortality. Early cancer prediction has become a crucial fo...
arXiv:2608. 03498v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed healthcare institutions without centralising sensitive patient data.
arXiv:2607. 05628v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate and efficient classification of thoracic diseases in chest X-ray (CXR) images is crucial for timely diagnosis and treatment.
Simultaneous assessment of medical imaging and patient records is often required in clinical diagnosis. However, standard machine learning algorithms cannot analyze these data types together. Meanwhil...
arXiv:2609.24627v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-organ segmentation using deep learning requires large amounts of annotated patient data; however, institutions often lack sufficiently large and...
The CXR‑LT 2026 Challenge introduces a multi‑center, long‑tailed chest X‑ray classification benchmark with over 145,000 radiologist‑annotated images from PadChest and NIH datasets. It defines two core tasks: robust multi‑label classification on 30 known classes and open‑world generalization to 6 unseen rare disease classes. The paper outlines data collection, annotation, solution strategies, and evaluates performance across head‑vs‑tail, calibration, and cross‑center gaps, noting that vision‑language models improve in‑distribution and zero‑shot performance but rare‑finding detection under multi‑center shift remains difficult.