A privacy-preserving distributed filtering framework for NLP artifacts
Abstract Background Medical data sharing is a big challenge in biomedicine, which often hinders collaborative research. Due to privacy concerns, clinical notes cannot be directly shared. A lot of efforts have been dedicated to de-identifying clinical notes but it is still very challenging to accurat...
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| author | Md Nazmus Sadat Md Momin Al Aziz Noman Mohammed Serguei Pakhomov Hongfang Liu Xiaoqian Jiang |
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| description | Abstract Background Medical data sharing is a big challenge in biomedicine, which often hinders collaborative research. Due to privacy concerns, clinical notes cannot be directly shared. A lot of efforts have been dedicated to de-identifying clinical notes but it is still very challenging to accurately locate and scrub all sensitive elements from notes in an automatic manner. An alternative approach is to remove sentences that might contain sensitive terms related to personal information. Methods A previous study introduced a frequency-based filtering approach that removes sentences containing low frequency bigrams to improve the privacy protection without significantly decreasing the utility. Our work extends this method to consider clinical notes from distributed sources with security and privacy considerations. We developed a novel secure protocol based on private set intersection and secure thresholding to identify uncommon and low-frequency terms, which can be used to guide sentence filtering. Results As the computational cost of our proposed framework mostly depends on the cardinality of the intersection of the sets and the number of data owners, we evaluated the framework in terms of these two factors. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method is scalable in various experimental settings. In addition, we evaluated our framework in terms of data utility. This evaluation shows that the proposed method is able to retain enough information for data analysis. Conclusion This work demonstrates the feasibility of using homomorphic encryption to develop a secure and efficient multi-party protocol. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-24a1d32044984e03ac4811712f3eef062022-12-21T22:41:22ZengBMCBMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making1472-69472019-09-0119111010.1186/s12911-019-0867-zA privacy-preserving distributed filtering framework for NLP artifactsMd Nazmus Sadat0Md Momin Al Aziz1Noman Mohammed2Serguei Pakhomov3Hongfang Liu4Xiaoqian Jiang5Department of Computer Science, University of ManitobaDepartment of Computer Science, University of ManitobaDepartment of Computer Science, University of ManitobaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems, University of MinnesotaDepartment of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of MedicineSchool of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonAbstract Background Medical data sharing is a big challenge in biomedicine, which often hinders collaborative research. Due to privacy concerns, clinical notes cannot be directly shared. A lot of efforts have been dedicated to de-identifying clinical notes but it is still very challenging to accurately locate and scrub all sensitive elements from notes in an automatic manner. An alternative approach is to remove sentences that might contain sensitive terms related to personal information. Methods A previous study introduced a frequency-based filtering approach that removes sentences containing low frequency bigrams to improve the privacy protection without significantly decreasing the utility. Our work extends this method to consider clinical notes from distributed sources with security and privacy considerations. We developed a novel secure protocol based on private set intersection and secure thresholding to identify uncommon and low-frequency terms, which can be used to guide sentence filtering. Results As the computational cost of our proposed framework mostly depends on the cardinality of the intersection of the sets and the number of data owners, we evaluated the framework in terms of these two factors. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method is scalable in various experimental settings. In addition, we evaluated our framework in terms of data utility. This evaluation shows that the proposed method is able to retain enough information for data analysis. Conclusion This work demonstrates the feasibility of using homomorphic encryption to develop a secure and efficient multi-party protocol.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-019-0867-zBiomedical data security and privacyClinical notes de-identificationHomomorphic encryption |
| spellingShingle | Md Nazmus Sadat Md Momin Al Aziz Noman Mohammed Serguei Pakhomov Hongfang Liu Xiaoqian Jiang A privacy-preserving distributed filtering framework for NLP artifacts BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making Biomedical data security and privacy Clinical notes de-identification Homomorphic encryption |
| title | A privacy-preserving distributed filtering framework for NLP artifacts |
| title_full | A privacy-preserving distributed filtering framework for NLP artifacts |
| title_fullStr | A privacy-preserving distributed filtering framework for NLP artifacts |
| title_full_unstemmed | A privacy-preserving distributed filtering framework for NLP artifacts |
| title_short | A privacy-preserving distributed filtering framework for NLP artifacts |
| title_sort | privacy preserving distributed filtering framework for nlp artifacts |
| topic | Biomedical data security and privacy Clinical notes de-identification Homomorphic encryption |
| url | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-019-0867-z |
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