Federated Learning in Healthcare, AIM-AHEAD
Created by Lesley Grandstaff
Please join us for “Federated Learning in Healthcare: A Brief Review of Foundations, Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities”
Presenter: Panagiotis Markopoulos, PhD
Margie and Bill Klesse Endowed Associate Professor
Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science
University of Texas at San Antonio
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
3:15-3:45 pm CT/ 4:15-4:45 pm ET
Federated Learning (FL) is transforming artificial intelligence by enabling decentralized model training across institutions without requiring direct data sharing.
This talk will begin with a brief review of foundational principles, structural components, and key methodologies, emphasizing its role as a privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm. Some key applications of FL in healthcare will be explored, including real-time patient monitoring, personalized treatment, broader medical research, and AI-driven drug discovery. Current implementations and studies demonstrate FL’s ability to enable multi-institutional collaboration while maintaining data privacy, allowing for improved model generalization, greater resource efficiency, and enhanced decision-making in clinical practice and research.
We will also review some of the challenges FL must overcome to maximize its benefits to health systems, such as data heterogeneity, model convergence issues, communication overhead, generalization limitations, bias, and computational costs, which further complicate clinical adoption. As research advances and these challenges are addressed, FL has the potential to revolutionize collaborative AI in medicine, driving secure, data-driven healthcare innovation while safeguarding patient privacy.
