Lightweight Privacy-Preserving Medical Diagnosis in Edge Computing

K Manikanta, G Priyanka, S Saifulla, J Raviteja, V Sthuthikumar, S Saif Ali

Problem: Healthcare diagnosis systems face challenges in privacy preservation, real-time processing, and scalability, especially when using machine learning models like XGBoost. Solution: This paper proposes a streamlined privacy-preserving XGBoost model for healthcare diagnosis in edge computing environments. The model ensures data confidentiality through homomorphic encryption and lightweight computation for resource-constrained edge devices.
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