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The Interplay Between Explainability and Differential Privacy in Federated Healthcare

De Bosch, Marc Molina Van
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Protani, Andrea  
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Taiello, Riccardo
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Zamzmi, Ghada
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Reinke, Annika
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2026
Bridging Regulatory Science and Medical Imaging Evaluation; and Distributed, Collaborative, and Federated Learning. First International Workshop, BRIDGE 2025, and 6th International Workshop, DeCaF 2025, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2025, Daejeon, South Korea, September 23 and September 27, 2025, Proceedings
1st International Workshop on Bridging Regulatory Science and Medical Imaging Evaluation and MICCAI Workshop on Distributed, Collaborative and Federated Learning, Held in Conjunction with International conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention

Federated Learning (FL) enables the training of deep learning models on siloed medical data. Its real-world application is often challenged by statistical heterogeneity, privacy requirements, and the need for model transparency. This paper addresses these challenges by investigating the interplay between FL, Differential Privacy (DP), and model explainability for 3D medical image segmentation. To simulate a realistic environment, we establish a cross-silo federation of four clients, comprising data from the BraTS dataset and a distinct heterogeneous dataset from a real hospital in Europe. Our analysis characterizes and quantifies an interaction, namely the phHeterogeneity Amplifier effect, providing a metric to measure the disproportionate degradation of explanation fidelity on heterogeneous clients under DP. To address this challenge, we propose Boundary-Interior Disentangled CAM (BID-CAM), a hybrid explanation method designed for DP-awareness. Our evaluation shows that BID-CAM maintains explanation fidelity under privacy constraints with respect to standard methods, demonstrating a more robust approach to model transparency in private, federated settings applied to medical imaging.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-032-05663-4_13
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-105018302483

Author(s)
De Bosch, Marc Molina Van

Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire

Protani, Andrea  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Taiello, Riccardo

Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire

Giusti, Lorenzo

Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire

Costa, Matilde Carvalho

Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire

Stathopoulos, Ioannis

Attikon University Hospital

Efstathopoulos, Efstathios

Attikon University Hospital

Santos, Diogo Reis

Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire

Ballester, Miguel Angel Gonzalez

Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona

Serio, Luigi

Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire

Editors
Zamzmi, Ghada
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Reinke, Annika
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Samala, Ravi
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Jiang, Meirui
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Li, Xiaoxiao
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Roth, Holger
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Sidulova, Mariia
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Kooi, Thijs
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Albarqouni, Shadi
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Bakas, Spyridon
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Date Issued

2026

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

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Bridging Regulatory Science and Medical Imaging Evaluation; and Distributed, Collaborative, and Federated Learning. First International Workshop, BRIDGE 2025, and 6th International Workshop, DeCaF 2025, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2025, Daejeon, South Korea, September 23 and September 27, 2025, Proceedings
DOI of the book
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05663-4
ISBN of the book

978-3-032-05665-8

978-3-032-05663-4

Series title/Series vol.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 16135 LNCS

ISSN (of the series)

1611-3349

0302-9743

Start page

131

End page

142

Subjects

Data Heterogeneity

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Differential Privacy

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Explainable AI

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Federated Learning

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Grad-CAM

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Medical Image Segmentation

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1st International Workshop on Bridging Regulatory Science and Medical Imaging Evaluation and MICCAI Workshop on Distributed, Collaborative and Federated Learning, Held in Conjunction with International conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention

Daejeon, Korea, Republic of

2025-09-23 - 2025-09-27

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October 20, 2025
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