Tackling Heterogeneity in Medical Federated learning via Vision Transformers

13 Oct 2023  ·  Erfan Darzi, Yiqing Shen, Yangming Ou, Nanna M. Sijtsema, P. M. A van Ooijen ·

Optimization-based regularization methods have been effective in addressing the challenges posed by data heterogeneity in medical federated learning, particularly in improving the performance of underrepresented clients. However, these methods often lead to lower overall model accuracy and slower convergence rates. In this paper, we demonstrate that using Vision Transformers can substantially improve the performance of underrepresented clients without a significant trade-off in overall accuracy. This improvement is attributed to the Vision transformer's ability to capture long-range dependencies within the input data.

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