You are currently viewing a new version of our website. To view the old version click .

17 Results Found

  • Article
  • Open Access
559 Views
19 Pages

10 November 2025

Text data is indispensable for modern machine learning and natural language processing but often contains sensitive information that must be protected before sharing or release. Differential privacy (DP) provides rigorous guarantees for privacy prese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,278 Views
16 Pages

Masketeer: An Ensemble-Based Pseudonymization Tool with Entity Recognition for German Unstructured Medical Free Text

  • Martin Baumgartner,
  • Karl Kreiner,
  • Fabian Wiesmüller,
  • Dieter Hayn,
  • Christian Puelacher and
  • Günter Schreier

6 August 2024

Background: The recent rise of large language models has triggered renewed interest in medical free text data, which holds critical information about patients and diseases. However, medical free text is also highly sensitive. Therefore, de-identifica...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,684 Views
24 Pages

A Survey of Deep Learning for Electronic Health Records

  • Jiabao Xu,
  • Xuefeng Xi,
  • Jie Chen,
  • Victor S. Sheng,
  • Jieming Ma and
  • Zhiming Cui

17 November 2022

Medical data is an important part of modern medicine. However, with the rapid increase in the amount of data, it has become hard to use this data effectively. The development of machine learning, such as feature engineering, enables researchers to ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,240 Views
24 Pages

Generating Synthetic Training Data for Supervised De-Identification of Electronic Health Records

  • Claudia Alessandra Libbi,
  • Jan Trienes,
  • Dolf Trieschnigg and
  • Christin Seifert

A major hurdle in the development of natural language processing (NLP) methods for Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is the lack of large, annotated datasets. Privacy concerns prevent the distribution of EHRs, and the annotation of data is known to be...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
14,102 Views
28 Pages

Trustworthy AI: Securing Sensitive Data in Large Language Models

  • Georgios Feretzakis and
  • Vassilios S. Verykios

6 December 2024

Large language models (LLMs) have transformed Natural Language Processing (NLP) by enabling robust text generation and understanding. However, their deployment in sensitive domains like healthcare, finance, and legal services raises critical concerns...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,078 Views
26 Pages

18 September 2025

The internet’s evolution as a global communication nexus has enabled unprecedented connectivity, allowing users to share information, media, and personal updates across social platforms. However, these platforms also amplify risks such as cyber...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,181 Views
13 Pages

FedQAS: Privacy-Aware Machine Reading Comprehension with Federated Learning

  • Addi Ait-Mlouk,
  • Sadi A. Alawadi,
  • Salman Toor and
  • Andreas Hellander

18 March 2022

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) of text data is a challenging task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), with a lot of ongoing research fueled by the release of the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD) and Conversational Question Answering...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,054 Views
29 Pages

5 September 2025

Social networks generate vast amounts of data that can reveal patterns of human behaviour, social attachment, and mental states. This paper explores advanced machine learning techniques to detect and model such patterns, focusing on community structu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,992 Views
37 Pages

A State-of-the-Art Review of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications in Healthcare: Advances in Diabetes, Cancer, Epidemiology, and Mortality Prediction

  • Mariano Vargas-Santiago,
  • Diana Assaely León-Velasco,
  • Christian Efraín Maldonado-Sifuentes and
  • Liliana Chanona-Hernandez

Artificial Intelligence (AI) methodologies have profoundly influenced healthcare research, particularly in chronic disease management and public health. This paper provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of AI’s applications across dia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,589 Views
22 Pages

LAMBERT: Leveraging Attention Mechanisms to Improve the BERT Fine-Tuning Model for Encrypted Traffic Classification

  • Tao Liu,
  • Xiting Ma,
  • Ling Liu,
  • Xin Liu,
  • Yue Zhao,
  • Ning Hu and
  • Kayhan Zrar Ghafoor

22 May 2024

Encrypted traffic classification is a crucial part of privacy-preserving research. With the great success of artificial intelligence technology in fields such as image recognition and natural language processing, how to classify encrypted traffic bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,217 Views
17 Pages

Balancing Privacy and Robustness in Prompt Learning for Large Language Models

  • Chiyu Shi,
  • Junyu Su,
  • Chiawei Chu,
  • Baoping Wang and
  • Duanyang Feng

26 October 2024

This paper tackles the critical issue of privacy in Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems that process sensitive data by introducing a novel framework combining differential privacy and adversarial training. The proposed solution ensures formal p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,740 Views
22 Pages

An Email Cyber Threat Intelligence Method Using Domain Ontology and Machine Learning

  • Algimantas Venčkauskas,
  • Jevgenijus Toldinas,
  • Nerijus Morkevičius and
  • Filippo Sanfilippo

Email is an excellent technique for connecting users at low cost. Spam emails pose the risk of collecting a user’s personal information by fooling them into clicking on a link or engaging in other fraudulent activities. Furthermore, when a spam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,865 Views
33 Pages

A Secure and Privacy-Preserving Blockchain-Based XAI-Justice System

  • Konstantinos Demertzis,
  • Konstantinos Rantos,
  • Lykourgos Magafas,
  • Charalabos Skianis and
  • Lazaros Iliadis

28 August 2023

Pursuing “intelligent justice” necessitates an impartial, productive, and technologically driven methodology for judicial determinations. This scholarly composition proposes a framework that harnesses Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,298 Views
18 Pages

14 January 2025

Data security is a critical concern for Internet users, primarily as more people rely on social networks and online tools daily. Despite the convenience, many users are unaware of the risks posed to their sensitive and personal data. This study addre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,262 Views
27 Pages

9 December 2024

Dataset distillation has become an important technique for enhancing the efficiency of data when training machine learning models. It finds extensive applications across various fields, including computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,493 Views
12 Pages

Artificial intelligence (AI) and assistive robotics can transform older-person care by offering new, personalised solutions for an ageing population. This paper outlines recent advances in AI-driven applications and robotic assistance in silver care,...