Table 3 Effect of number of rounds on accuracy and averaged performance metrics for FL algorithms in highly heterogeneous setting.

From: A comparative study of federated learning methods for COVID-19 detection

Method

Number of rounds and accuracy

Performance metrics (avg. every round)

3 rounds

5 rounds

10 rounds

15 rounds

Accuracy (%)

Recall (%)

Precision (%)

F1 score (%)

FedAVG

50.17% \(\downarrow\)(− 5.88%)

54.24% \(\downarrow\)(− 9.54%)

59.19 \(\downarrow\)(− 10.45%)

67.04% \(\downarrow\)(− 3.69%)

58.12

60.71

42.04

45.87

FedSGD

51.30% \(\uparrow\)(+ 0.42%)

52.29% \(\downarrow\)(− 3.61%)

60.59% \(\downarrow\)(− 14.99%)

64.25% \(\downarrow\)(− 12.69%)

60.09

56.97

41.44

32.18

CWT

49.95% \(\downarrow\)(− 30.82%)

51.30% \(\downarrow\)(− 38.48%)

50.84% \(\downarrow\)(− 40.43%)

54.39% \(\downarrow\)(− 39.17%)

51.75

55.06

41.10

47.62

SWT

–

–

–

–

48.60

47.42

34.78

49.30

STWT

48.38% \(\downarrow\)(− 42.35%)

51.65% \(\downarrow\)(− 32.32%)

50.64% \(\downarrow\)(− 38.80%)

49.01% \(\downarrow\)(− 43.99%)

50.91

54.02

38.64

44.71

CDS

85.06% (± 0.00%)

81.56% (± 0.00%)

91.06% (± 0.00%)

91.04% (± 0.00%)

87.75

89.57

87.93

87.19

Local

43.89% \(\downarrow\)(− 3.26%)

40.75% \(\downarrow\)(− 11.43%)

48.98% \(\downarrow\)(− 11.33%)

47.12% \(\downarrow\)(− 15.68%)

46.62

50.01

29.64

39.43