UltraFlwr -- An Efficient Federated Medical and Surgical Object Detection Framework

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15161v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:38:04 GMT
• Title: UltraFlwr -- An Efficient Federated Medical and Surgical Object Detection Framework
• Authors: Yang Li, Soumya Snigdha Kundu, Maxence Boels, Toktam Mahmoodi, Sebastien Ourselin, Tom Vercauteren, Prokar Dasgupta, Jonathan Shapey, Alejandro Granados,
• Abstract summary: We introduce UltraFlwr, a framework for federated medical and surgical object detection.<n>YOLO-PA significantly reduces communication overhead by up to 83% per round.<n>We establish one of the first benchmarks in federated medical and surgical object detection.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Object detection shows promise for medical and surgical applications such as cell counting and tool tracking. However, its faces multiple real-world edge deployment challenges including limited high-quality annotated data, data sharing restrictions, and computational constraints. In this work, we introduce UltraFlwr, a framework for federated medical and surgical object detection. By leveraging Federated Learning (FL), UltraFlwr enables decentralized model training across multiple sites without sharing raw data. To further enhance UltraFlwr's efficiency, we propose YOLO-PA, a set of novel Partial Aggregation (PA) strategies specifically designed for YOLO models in FL. YOLO-PA significantly reduces communication overhead by up to 83% per round while maintaining performance comparable to Full Aggregation (FA) strategies. Our extensive experiments on BCCD and m2cai16-tool-locations datasets demonstrate that YOLO-PA not only provides better client models compared to client-wise centralized training and FA strategies, but also facilitates efficient training and deployment across resource-constrained edge devices. Further, we also establish one of the first benchmarks in federated medical and surgical object detection. This paper advances the feasibility of training and deploying detection models on the edge, making federated object detection more practical for time-critical and resource-constrained medical and surgical applications. UltraFlwr is publicly available at https://github.com/KCL-BMEIS/UltraFlwr.

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