Privacy-preserving Speech-based Depression Diagnosis via Federated Learning
Abstract
Mental health disorders, such as depression, affect a large and growing number of populations worldwide, and they may cause severe emotional, behavioral and physical health problems if left untreated. As depression affects a patient's speech characteristics, recent studies have proposed to leverage deep-learning-powered speech analysis models for depression diagnosis, which often require centralized learning on the collected voice data. However, this centralized training requiring data to be stored at a server raises the risks of severe voice data breaches, and people may not be willing to share their speech data with third parties due to privacy concerns. To address these issues, in this paper, we demonstrate for the first time that speech-based depression diagnosis models can be trained in a privacy-preserving way using federated learning, which enables collaborative model training while keeping the private speech data decentralized on clients' devices. To ensure the model's robustness under attacks, we also integrate different FL defenses into the system, such as norm bounding, differential privacy, and secure aggregation mechanisms. Extensive experiments under various FL settings on the DAIC-WOZ dataset show that our FL model can achieve high performance without sacrificing much utility compared with centralized-learning approaches while ensuring users' speech data privacy. Clinical Relevance- The experiments were conducted on publicly available clinical datasets. No…
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