A Novel Disease Prediction Model Based on Blockchain and Federated Learning

Abstract

With the advent of the era of big data, the model architecture of disease prediction has been transformed from cloud computing architecture to edge computing architecture to alleviate problems, such as single point of failure, huge burden of computing and long communication delays.However, due to the lack of trust among edge computing participants (herein referred to as medical institutions with data resources or data storage nodes), the patients’ personal privacy and security issues are still challenging, and there is an urgent need to propose new solutions with higher security. In this paper, we proposed a new disease prediction model with the edge computing framework based on blockchain and federated learning technology to realise full mining of data value, as well as protecting local data sharing security and privacy. In the process of federated learning with blockchain as the underlying platform working environment, we propose the concept of model accuracy as the selection indicator of data nodes in federated learning, which improves the accuracy of the federated learning model and optimizes the training delay.