Similarity Weighted Aggregation with Global Differential Privacy for Federated Brain Lesion Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00872v1
• Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:23:32 GMT
• Title: Similarity Weighted Aggregation with Global Differential Privacy for Federated Brain Lesion Segmentation
• Abstract summary: Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of machine learning models across multiple institutions without sharing sensitive data.<n>We propose DP-SimAgg, a privacy-preserving federated learning framework that integrates similarity-weighted aggregation with a server-side differential privacy mechanism.
• Score: 0.04863616912081875
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of machine learning models across multiple institutions without sharing sensitive data, making it particularly suitable for medical imaging applications. However, heterogeneous data distributions across institutions and potential information leakage through model updates remain important challenges. In this work, we propose DP-SimAgg, a privacy-preserving federated learning framework that integrates similarity-weighted aggregation with a server-side differential privacy mechanism. The proposed method applies L2 clipping to bound collaborator updates, computes similarity-based aggregation weights to mitigate the effects of non-IID data distributions, and injects calibrated Gaussian noise at the central server, providing per-round privacy guarantees under the assumed sensitivity bound. The framework is implemented using Intel's OpenFL platform and evaluated on the FeTS 2022 dataset consisting of 1251 multi-modal MRI scans for brain tumor segmentation. Experimental results demonstrate that DP-SimAgg maintains competitive segmentation performance while providing privacy protection. Under a strict per-round privacy budget (epsilon = 1, cumulative epsilon_total = 20 over 20 rounds), the method achieves Dice scores of 0.6357, 0.5305, and 0.5274 for the enhancing tumor (ET), tumor core (TC), and whole tumor (WT) regions, respectively. With a more relaxed per-round budget (epsilon = 10, cumulative epsilon_total = 200), performance approaches that of the non-private baseline while incorporating a central Gaussian mechanism with per-round (epsilon, delta)-DP accounting under the assumed sensitivity bound. These results highlight the potential of DP-SimAgg for enabling privacy-preserving collaborative learning in medical imaging applications.

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