Data Auditing and Quality Assurance in a Federated Learning Consortium; Getting the Best of Both Worlds from Cross-Institutional and In-House Data Quality Inspection
Introduction: Rare and heterogeneous disease research increasingly relies on privacy-enhancing technologies such as federated learning (FL) to enable cross-institutional collaboration across fragmented datasets. However, data quality assurance in FL can be limited, as individual-level data may not be directly accessibl...