Privacy and utility trade-off in ai models for detection of alcoholism-related anomalies in EEG signals

Alcoholism diagnosis through electroencephalogram (EEG) data analysis offers a promising alternative to traditional methods by identifying specific brain activity patterns associated with alcohol dependency. While deep learning techniques have demonstrated high accuracy in classifying EEG signals, p...

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Autor: Erazo Navas, Alejandra
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Colombia
Institución:Universidad de los Andes
Repositorio:Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/75241
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/1992/75241
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:EEG
Differential privacy
Deep learning
Ingeniería
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Sumario:Alcoholism diagnosis through electroencephalogram (EEG) data analysis offers a promising alternative to traditional methods by identifying specific brain activity patterns associated with alcohol dependency. While deep learning techniques have demonstrated high accuracy in classifying EEG signals, privacy concerns related to sensitive medical data remain prevalent. Ensuring the privacy of patient data is critical for building trust and enabling the adoption of these tools in real-world clinical settings. This study develops deep learning models with enhanced privacy guarantees by incorporating differential privacy mechanisms, including (ϵ, δ)-Differential Privacy and Gaussian Differential Privacy (GDP). We compare their efficacy in preserving data privacy while maintaining model utility. Experiments show that convolutional and long-short-term memory models optimized with Adam excel in utility and stability. GDP outperforms (ϵ, δ)-DP by requiring less noise, while DP-Adam surpasses DP-SGD in privacy and utility, particularly for fast convergence. Larger datasets further enhance this balance, emphasizing the importance of effective privacy mechanisms and sufficient data. By balancing privacy and utility, this work contributes a novel approach to privacy-preserving AI for sensitive health applications, emphasizing scalable models that maintain diagnostic accuracy.