Radiomic Evaluation Model on the Efficacy of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer A Multicenter Collaborative Research Based on Privacy Protection
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Background: Practical implementation of radiomics research faces significant data accessibility challenges due to privacy and ethical restrictions on multicenter data aggregation. Federated Learning (FL) provides a secure distributed framework that preserves data privacy through cryptographic techniques. Its adoption in radiomics is an emerging trend, enabling collaborative training without sharing sensitive imaging data. However, the inherently Non-IID data distribution across clients in FL often leads to class imbalance, which can substantially degrade global model performance. Purpose: To develop a privacy-preserving, multicenter collaborative CT-radiomics model for evaluating neoadjuvant chemotherapy efficacy in non‑small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods: To mitigate FL performance degradation caused by data imbalance, we propose a parameter‑sharing federated aggregation algorithm (FedPS), where model parameters are sequentially shared via the server. Results: On an imbalanced NSCLC NAC efficacy dataset, centralized learning achieved an AUC of 0.92. FedPS attained competitive performance (AUC = 0.88), approaching the centralized benchmark while preserving privacy. Common FL algorithms performed lower: FedAvg (AUC = 0.84), FedSGD (0.85), and FedProx (0.85). On extremely imbalanced data, FedPS maintained good performance (AUC = 0.86), compared to FedAvg (0.80), FedSGD (0.83), and FedProx (0.85). Conclusions: The proposed FedPS algorithm demonstrates promising classification and generalization performance in imbalanced federated learning scenarios.
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TY - JOUR AU - Long, Yuehong AU - Zeng, Yuliang AU - Zhang, Tao AU - Zhou, Jiancun AU - He, Qian AU - Liu, Xingqi AU - Wang, Ke PY - 2026 DA - 2026/01/04 TI - Radiomic Evaluation Model on the Efficacy of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer A Multicenter Collaborative Research Based on Privacy Protection JO - Chinese Journal of Information Fusion T2 - Chinese Journal of Information Fusion JF - Chinese Journal of Information Fusion VL - 3 IS - 1 SP - 17 EP - 30 DO - 10.62762/CJIF.2025.125241 UR - https://www.icck.org/article/abs/CJIF.2025.125241 KW - radiomics KW - federated learning KW - deep learning KW - distributed learning AB - Background: Practical implementation of radiomics research faces significant data accessibility challenges due to privacy and ethical restrictions on multicenter data aggregation. Federated Learning (FL) provides a secure distributed framework that preserves data privacy through cryptographic techniques. Its adoption in radiomics is an emerging trend, enabling collaborative training without sharing sensitive imaging data. However, the inherently Non-IID data distribution across clients in FL often leads to class imbalance, which can substantially degrade global model performance. Purpose: To develop a privacy-preserving, multicenter collaborative CT-radiomics model for evaluating neoadjuvant chemotherapy efficacy in non‑small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods: To mitigate FL performance degradation caused by data imbalance, we propose a parameter‑sharing federated aggregation algorithm (FedPS), where model parameters are sequentially shared via the server. Results: On an imbalanced NSCLC NAC efficacy dataset, centralized learning achieved an AUC of 0.92. FedPS attained competitive performance (AUC = 0.88), approaching the centralized benchmark while preserving privacy. Common FL algorithms performed lower: FedAvg (AUC = 0.84), FedSGD (0.85), and FedProx (0.85). On extremely imbalanced data, FedPS maintained good performance (AUC = 0.86), compared to FedAvg (0.80), FedSGD (0.83), and FedProx (0.85). Conclusions: The proposed FedPS algorithm demonstrates promising classification and generalization performance in imbalanced federated learning scenarios. SN - 2998-3371 PB - Institute of Central Computation and Knowledge LA - English ER -
@article{Long2026Radiomic,
author = {Yuehong Long and Yuliang Zeng and Tao Zhang and Jiancun Zhou and Qian He and Xingqi Liu and Ke Wang},
title = {Radiomic Evaluation Model on the Efficacy of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer A Multicenter Collaborative Research Based on Privacy Protection},
journal = {Chinese Journal of Information Fusion},
year = {2026},
volume = {3},
number = {1},
pages = {17-30},
doi = {10.62762/CJIF.2025.125241},
url = {https://www.icck.org/article/abs/CJIF.2025.125241},
abstract = {Background: Practical implementation of radiomics research faces significant data accessibility challenges due to privacy and ethical restrictions on multicenter data aggregation. Federated Learning (FL) provides a secure distributed framework that preserves data privacy through cryptographic techniques. Its adoption in radiomics is an emerging trend, enabling collaborative training without sharing sensitive imaging data. However, the inherently Non-IID data distribution across clients in FL often leads to class imbalance, which can substantially degrade global model performance. Purpose: To develop a privacy-preserving, multicenter collaborative CT-radiomics model for evaluating neoadjuvant chemotherapy efficacy in non‑small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods: To mitigate FL performance degradation caused by data imbalance, we propose a parameter‑sharing federated aggregation algorithm (FedPS), where model parameters are sequentially shared via the server. Results: On an imbalanced NSCLC NAC efficacy dataset, centralized learning achieved an AUC of 0.92. FedPS attained competitive performance (AUC = 0.88), approaching the centralized benchmark while preserving privacy. Common FL algorithms performed lower: FedAvg (AUC = 0.84), FedSGD (0.85), and FedProx (0.85). On extremely imbalanced data, FedPS maintained good performance (AUC = 0.86), compared to FedAvg (0.80), FedSGD (0.83), and FedProx (0.85). Conclusions: The proposed FedPS algorithm demonstrates promising classification and generalization performance in imbalanced federated learning scenarios.},
keywords = {radiomics, federated learning, deep learning, distributed learning},
issn = {2998-3371},
publisher = {Institute of Central Computation and Knowledge}
}
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