Assisted diagnosis of breast cancer based on federated learning and improved DenseNet

Breast cancer is one of the common cancers worldwide, and how to identify breast cancer as early as possible plays an important role in its later diagnosis and treatment.However, relying only on data from a single organisation can limit the ability of trained neural networks to meet the performance demands of medical diagnostic services, and centralised learning that collects data from decentralised organisations can lead to privacy leakage. To address the above challenges, this paper proposes an assisted diagnosis model for breast cancer combining federated learning and improved DenseNet. Specifically, in contrast to mainstream centralised learning, this paper introduces federated learning to integrate multiparty data and effectively prevent privacy leakage. Each client sends the local model to the central server for aggregation, and then the global model obtained from the aggregation is sent to each client for training,thus achieving collaborative training of neural network models.In addition, in order to enhance the ability to capture feature information, this paper incorporates a Dynamic Convolution module into the densely connected network to improve the diagnostic accuracy without significantly increasing the size of the network model. The experimental results show that the proposed method has better diagnostic performance in breast cancer diagnosis compared with other methods.