Investigation on Preserving Privacy of Electronic Medical Record using Split Learning

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence is deployed in multiple areas, including healthcare. Utmost research is done in AI enabled healthcare industry because of the demands like accurate result, data security, exact prediction, huge volume of data, etc. In conventional deep learning models, the training happens with the dataset that are stored in a single device. This requires a huge storage space and highly efficient machines to train the data. Usage of big data, demands for innovative models that can be deployed and used in confined storage. Split learning is one such collaborative distributed deep learning model that allows the data to be stored in a split fashion. Split learning supports desirable features like less storage, more privacy to raw data, ability to work with resource constraints, etc., making it suitable for storing electronic medical record of patients. This paper discusses the advantages of using split learning for healthcare, the possible configurations of split learning that supports data privacy in healthcare and finally discusses the open research challenges in implementing split learning for healthcare.