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Abstract
IoT devices are sorely underutilized in the medical field, especially within
machine learning for medicine, yet they offer unrivaled benefits. IoT devices
are low-cost, energy-efficient, small and intelligent devices. In this paper,
we propose a distributed federated learning framework for IoT devices, more
specifically for IoMT (Internet of Medical Things), using blockchain to allow
for a decentralized scheme improving privacy and efficiency over a centralized
system; this allows us to move from the cloud-based architectures, that are
prevalent, to the edge. The system is designed for three paradigms: 1) Training
neural networks on IoT devices to allow for collaborative training of a shared
model whilst decoupling the learning from the dataset to ensure privacy.
Training is performed in an online manner simultaneously amongst all
participants, allowing for the training of actual data that may not have been
present in a dataset collected in the traditional way and dynamically adapt the
system whilst it is being trained. 2) Training of an IoMT system in a fully
private manner such as to mitigate the issue with confidentiality of medical
data and to build robust, and potentially bespoke, models where not much, if
any, data exists. 3) Distribution of the actual network training, something
federated learning itself does not do, to allow hospitals, for example, to
utilize their spare computing resources to train network models.