Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Truly privacy-preserving federated analytics for precision medicine with multiparty homomorphic encryption

  • David Froelicher,
  • Juan R. Troncoso-Pastoriza,
  • Jean Louis Raisaro,
  • Michel A. Cuendet,
  • Joao Sa Sousa,
  • Hyunghoon Cho,
  • Bonnie Berger,
  • Jacques Fellay,
  • Jean-Pierre Hubaux

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25972-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Existing approaches to sharing of distributed medical data either provide only limited protection of patients’ privacy or sacrifice the accuracy of results. Here, the authors propose a federated analytics system, based on multiparty homomorphic encryption (MHE), to overcome these issues.