arXiv Machine Learning

REAN: Reconstruction-aware ECG Anonymization Based on Privacy--Utility Orthogonality

arXiv:2607. 06037v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A shared electrocardiogram (ECG) is itself a biometric fingerprint that can re-identify a patient and reveal personal information.

arXiv AI
Jun 11

Privacy-Preserving Federated Autoencoder for ECG Anomaly Detection on Edge Devices

arXiv:2606. 11556v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous electrocardiography (ECG) monitoring could surface rhythm abnormalities before they escalate into cardiovascular events.

By Kaan Arda Akyol, Jakub Kacper Szel\k{a}g, Aydin Abadi, Maha Alghamdi, Ghadah Albalawi, Ghouse Ibrahim Kaleelullah, Hilal Tutus, Sarah Al Subaiei, Shardul Kapse, Syed Mohammed Raheeb, Mujeeb Ahmed, Rehmat Ullah
arXiv AI
Aug 17

Hybrid Quantum-inspired Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Privacy-Aware Federated Biosignal Learning

arXiv:2608. 13914v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings are sensitive biomedical data, limiting the ability of hospitals and wearable devices to share raw signals for centralized model training.

By Chun-Hua Lin, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen, Yu-Chao Hsu, Kuo-Chung Peng, Jiun-Cheng Jiang, Chi-Sheng Chen, Tai-Yue Li, Nan-Yow Chen, En-Jui Kuo, Hsi-Sheng Goan
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Differentially Private EEG Feature Anonymization: A Privacy-Utility Case Study in Clinical Neurophysiology

The paper investigates how subject‑level differential privacy (DP) can anonymize EEG‑derived feature representations while preserving clinical utility. It evaluates Gaussian and Laplace perturbations across three deployment scenarios—client‑side, server‑side, and decentralized local training—using statistical utility metrics and a downstream machine‑learning task. Results indicate that DP can be integrated into EEG workflows, but the choice of mechanism, privacy parameters, and sensitivity calibration critically affects data utility, especially in small, imbalanced clinical datasets.

By Noman Sadiq, Mohsen Toorani
arXiv AI
Sep 21

Learning Cardiac Features: ECG Biometrics Across Time and~Exercise

The study investigates ECG biometrics by training a Siamese ResNet with late multi-lead fusion on a large dataset from cardiopulmonary exercise tests. It evaluates the model under realistic conditions, including exercise-induced stress and cross-session variability, achieving an intra-session rest-to-peak EER of 1.7% and a state‑of‑the‑art 3.9% on the CYBHi dataset. The results demonstrate that an intrinsic cardiac signature remains robust to physiological and temporal drift.

By Luca Thiebaud (AMU, AMU SCI, DIAPRO, LIS), Paul Chauchat (AMU SCI, AMU, LIS, DIAPRO), Mustapha Ouladsine (AMU SCI, AMU, LIS, DIAPRO), St\'ephane Delliaux (AMU, APHM, C2VN)
arXiv AI
Jul 23

Recovering Clinical Utility Under Differential Privacy: Empirical Validation of Adaptive Federated Aggregation on Heterogeneous Cardiovascular Datasets

arXiv:2607. 19403v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Validating federated learning frameworks on real clinical data is an essential step between proof-of-concept demonstrations in controlled synthetic environments and deployment in real multicenter healthcare settings.

By Rodrigo Tertulino, Laercio Alencar, Ricardo Almeida
arXiv AI
Sep 16

Decoder Design Matters for ECG Delineation

The paper introduces R‑U‑Net, an ECG delineation model that combines a ResNet‑18 encoder with a U‑Net decoder. It demonstrates that this decoder design outperforms a ResNet‑18 + fully convolutional network baseline across 16 in‑domain settings and improves cross‑domain performance by 8.1 mIoU. Ablation studies reveal that the decoder contributes more to performance gains than the evaluated semi‑supervised learning methods.

By Joseph Scharpf, William Han, Chaojing Duan, Michael A. Rosenberg, Emerson Liu, Ding Zhao
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

Privacy Leakage in Federated Learning: Gradient-Based Client Identity Inference and Defenses for Inertial Sensing in Vehicular Edge Networks

The paper investigates how federated learning (FL) updates in vehicular edge networks can reveal client identities through gradient-based attacks on inertial sensor data, using the UCI Human Activity Recognition benchmark as a proxy. Experiments show that an honest-but-curious server can identify clients with near-perfect accuracy from unprotected updates. The authors evaluate lightweight defenses—clipping followed by Gaussian noise and ensemble FL—to mitigate this privacy risk while preserving model utility, reporting differential‑privacy budgets and empirical results across multiple attack classifiers and data partitions.

By Ali Akarma (Islamic University of Madinah, Madinah, Saudi Arabia, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Toqeer Ali Syed (Islamic University of Madinah, Madinah, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Khan (University of the West of England, Bristol, U.K), Qurat-ul-ain Mastoi (University of the West of England, Bristol, U.K), Adeel Ahmad (Islamic University of Madinah, Madinah, Saudi Arabia)
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Federated Learning via Explainable Adaptive Differential Privacy

arXiv:2509. 10691v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Decentralized federated learning enables collaborative model training without a central server, but shared model updates can still leak sensitive information through inversion, reconstruction, and membership inference attacks.

By Fardin Jalil Piran, Zhiling Chen, Yang Zhang, Qianyu Zhou, Jiong Tang, Farhad Imani