Privacy Preserving Data Imputation via Multi-party Computation for Medical Applications

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18878v1
• Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 08:36:42 GMT
• Title: Privacy Preserving Data Imputation via Multi-party Computation for Medical Applications
• Authors: Julia Jentsch, Ali Burak Ünal, Şeyma Selcan Mağara, Mete Akgün,
• Abstract summary: This study addresses privacy-preserving imputation methods for sensitive data using secure multi-party computation. We specifically target the medical and healthcare domains considering the significance of protection of the patient data. Experiments on the diabetes dataset validated the correctness of our privacy-preserving imputation methods, yielding the largest error around $3 times 10-3$.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Handling missing data is crucial in machine learning, but many datasets contain gaps due to errors or non-response. Unlike traditional methods such as listwise deletion, which are simple but inadequate, the literature offers more sophisticated and effective methods, thereby improving sample size and accuracy. However, these methods require accessing the whole dataset, which contradicts the privacy regulations when the data is distributed among multiple sources. Especially in the medical and healthcare domain, such access reveals sensitive information about patients. This study addresses privacy-preserving imputation methods for sensitive data using secure multi-party computation, enabling secure computations without revealing any party's sensitive information. In this study, we realized the mean, median, regression, and kNN imputation methods in a privacy-preserving way. We specifically target the medical and healthcare domains considering the significance of protection of the patient data, showcasing our methods on a diabetes dataset. Experiments on the diabetes dataset validated the correctness of our privacy-preserving imputation methods, yielding the largest error around $3 \times 10^{-3}$, closely matching plaintext methods. We also analyzed the scalability of our methods to varying numbers of samples, showing their applicability to real-world healthcare problems. Our analysis demonstrated that all our methods scale linearly with the number of samples. Except for kNN, the runtime of all our methods indicates that they can be utilized for large datasets.

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