PyDPLib: Python Differential Privacy Library for Private Medical Data AnalyticsShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Proceedings - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Digital Health, ICDH 2021, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2021, p. 191-196Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Pharmaceutical and medical technology companies accessing real-world medical data are not interested in personally identifiable data but rather in cohort data such as statistical aggregates, patterns, and trends. These companies cooperate with medical institutions that collect medical data and want to share it but they need to protect the privacy of individuals on the shared data. We present PyDPLib, a Python Differential Privacy library for private medical data analytics. We illustrate an application of differential privacy using PyDPLib in our platform for visualizing private statistics on a database of prostate cancer patients. Our experimental results show that PyDPLib allows creating statistical data plots without compromising patients' privacy while preserving underlying data distributions. Even though PyDPLib has been developed to be used in our platform for reporting the radiological examinations and procedures, it is general enough to be used to provide differential privacy on data in any data analytics and visualization platform, service or application.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2021. p. 191-196
Keywords [en]
Differential privacy, electronic data capture, private visual statistics, prostate cancer dataset, python library, Big data, Biomedical engineering, Data Analytics, Data privacy, Data visualization, Digital libraries, High level languages, Urology, Differential privacies, Electronic data, Medical data, Medical technologies, Pharmaceutical technologies, Private visual statistic, Diseases
National Category
Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-313269DOI: 10.1109/ICDH52753.2021.00034ISI: 000852642500023Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85119518818OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-313269DiVA, id: diva2:1664224
Conference
2021 IEEE International Conference on Digital Health, ICDH 2021, Virtual, Online, 5-11 September 2021.
Note
Part of proceeings: ISBN 978-1-6654-1685-6
QC 20220603
2022-06-032022-06-032023-03-06Bibliographically approved