Review Article

A Comprehensive Survey on Federated Learning Techniques for Healthcare Informatics

Table 5

FL for COVID outbreak prediction.

Ref.NoTechnologies usedKey contributionsLimitations

[19]Blockchain-based FL frameworkTraining a global, more accurate ML model on hospital data can assist in detecting COVID-19 cases during lung screeningsIt is challenging to share data securely (without compromising the privacy of users) and to train global models for -detecting positive cases

[20]UCADI frameworkA decentralized model, the unified CT-COVID AI diagnostic initiative, distributes and performs the AI model at each participating institution independently without sharing personal data(i) Data deficiency
(ii) Data isolation
(iii) Data heterogeneity

[38]AI and big dataThe coronavirus disease COVID-19 is being controlled with the use of AI and big dataPrivacy and security issues due to insufficient standard datasets

[39]AIIn the fight against COVID-19, AI can contribute in six ways:
(i) Early warnings and alerts
(i) Too much, and
(ii) Too little
(iii) Data
(ii) Tracking and prediction
(iii) Data dashboards
(iv) Diagnosis and prognosis
(v) Treatments and cures, and
(v) Social control

[78]Blockchain and AIThe coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic can be combated using AI and blockchain technologyThe lack of unified databases is a concern for protecting the privacy and the security of blockchain

[90]AI-related technologiesA comparison of FL to training without an FL framework was conducted using four different models:
(i) MobileNet
FL presents a number of statistical and system challenges when distributed device networks are used to train machine models
(ii) ResNet18
(iii) MoblieNet, and
(iv) COVID-net

[91]A novel collaborative city DT frameworkFL combined with city DTs alleviates the data sparsity challenge, facilitates collaboration, and provides privacy protection by designCollaborative training problems, such as:
(i) Disaster surveillance and
(ii) Prediction