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4 papers

cs.LG2026

Protocol Choices Matter More Than the Aggregation Algorithm: Federated Learning for In-Hospital Mortality Prediction in Care-Unit and Multi-Hospital Federations

Rodrigo Tertulino, Ricardo Almeida, Laércio Alencar

Federated learning allows hospitals to train a shared mortality model without pooling their records, but published comparisons of aggregation strategies rarely control the evaluati…

cs.LG2026

Recovering Clinical Utility Under Differential Privacy: Empirical Validation of Adaptive Federated Aggregation on Heterogeneous Cardiovascular Datasets

Rodrigo Tertulino, Laercio Alencar, Ricardo Almeida

Validating federated learning frameworks on real clinical data is an essential step between proof-of-concept demonstrations in controlled synthetic environments and deployment in r…

cs.LG2026

A Robust Framework for Secure Cardiovascular Risk Prediction: An Architectural Case Study of Differentially Private Federated Learning

Rodrigo Tertulino, Laércio Alencar

Accurate cardiovascular risk prediction is crucial for preventive healthcare; however, the development of robust Artificial Intelligence (AI) models is hindered by the fragmentatio…

cs.CR2026

Trustworthy Blockchain-based Federated Learning for Electronic Health Records: Securing Participant Identity with Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials

Rodrigo Tertulino, Ricardo Almeida, Laercio Alencar

The digitization of healthcare has generated massive volumes of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), offering unprecedented opportunities for training Artificial Intelligence (AI) mod…