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Abstract #0165

Federated Learning for Utilizing Multi-Institutional Prostate MRI with Diverse Histopathology

Abhejit Rajagopal1, Katya Redekop2, Anil Kemisetti1, Rishi Kulkarni3, Steven Raman3, Karthik Sarma3, Kirti Magudia4, Corey Arnold2,3, and Peder Larson1
1Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, United States, 2Electrical Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 3Radiology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 4Radiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Cancer, federated learningProstate cancer screening and diagnosis from MRI is extremely challenging, and current machine learning algorithms suffer in cross-institutional generalizability. Federated learning is a way to alleviate these issues by combining multi-center data without aggregating or homogenizing data. To enable this for prototype-stage algorithms, we introduce FLtools, a lightweight python library with re-usable federated learning components available freely at https://federated.ucsf.edu. We use this federated learning system to train a 3D UCNet on bi-parametric MRI and paired prostate biopsy data from two University of California hospitals, demonstrating dramatic improvements in cross-site generalization accuracy in clinically-significant lesion classification.

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