Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning via Differential Privacy and Homomorphic Encryption for Cardiovascular Disease Risk Modeling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27598v2
• Date: Sun, 03 May 2026 19:15:14 GMT
• Title: Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning via Differential Privacy and Homomorphic Encryption for Cardiovascular Disease Risk Modeling
• Abstract summary: Federated Learning (FL) reduces data centralization by enabling institutions to train models locally and share only model updates.<n>We evaluated DP and HE integration in FL under real-world conditions to quantify privacy-utility trade-offs in multi-institutional settings.<n>FL with DP incurred lower computational cost; however, LR was more sensitive to calibrated noise than the NN, resulting in greater performance degradation.
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• Abstract: Protecting sensitive health data while enabling collaborative analysis is a central challenge in healthcare. Traditional machine learning (ML) requires institutions to pool anonymized patient records, centralizing analytical development and privacy risks at a single site. Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), including Differential Privacy (DP) and Homomorphic Encryption (HE), can mitigate these risks. However, they are mainly studied in conventional data-sharing settings and often introduce trade-offs, including reduced model utility, higher computational cost, and increased implementation complexity. Federated Learning (FL) reduces data centralization by enabling institutions to train models locally and share only model updates. Nevertheless, FL does not eliminate privacy risks, as shared parameters or gradients may still reveal sensitive information. Integrating DP or HE into FL can strengthen privacy guarantees, yet their comparative performance and deployment implications in real-world healthcare settings remain unclear. We systematically evaluated DP and HE integration in FL under real-world conditions, comparing them with standard FL and centralized ML (cML) to quantify privacy-utility trade-offs in multi-institutional settings. Using nationwide Swedish healthcare data, we evaluated cardiovascular disease risk prediction using logistic regression (LR) and neural network (NN) learners. FL with HE achieved performance comparable to cML but introduced measurable cryptographic overhead, particularly in the NN implementation. FL with DP incurred lower computational cost; however, LR was more sensitive to calibrated noise than the NN, resulting in greater performance degradation. Our findings provide practical guidance for deploying privacy-preserving FL in fragmented healthcare systems.

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