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A robust privacy-preserving federated framework for kidney CT image classification using transfer learning models

Key takeaways

This is a computing paper, not a medical one. It describes a way to train software to sort kidney CT scans while keeping each hospital's images on its own computers, so patient scans are never pooled in one place. No patients were treated or followed, so there are no health results yet. Nothing here changes kidney care today.

Who did this work

Sai Sri Hemantha Konala (Vellore Institute of Technology University) · Srinivas Koppu (Vellore Institute of Technology University)

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, Kidney disease concept sweep (verified C2778653478) · 2026-09-04
https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2026.1840721