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Privacy-preserving AI in healthcare: a comprehensive survey of techniques and challenges

Jul 2026 · Cluster Computing · Vol 29 · 0 citations · 128 references

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This study aims to guide researchers and practitioners in designing secure, efficient, and privacy-preserving AI systems for healthcare by proposing a structured classification of privacy-preserving methods into four main categories: cryptographic approaches, decentralized learning methods, perturbation-based techniques, and hybrid models.

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