Table 2 FL scope and oncology area examined per study

From: Advancing breast, lung and prostate cancer research with federated learning. A systematic review

FL Scope

Oncology Area

Studies

Data privacy

Breast

19,30,33,36

Lung

14,21

Prostate

22

Multi-cancer

23

Domain adaptation

Multi-cancer

24

ML prediction improvement

Breast

15,17,19,30,34,36

Lung

20,21,35

Prostate

22

Multi-cancer

18,23,29

Multi-disease

38

Disease understanding improvement

Breast

15,32

ML model generalisability

Breast

19

Lung

16,20,25,27,28,35

Prostate

22,26,37

Multi-cancer

23,24

Multi-disease

31,38

Training time reduction

Lung

21

  1. Multi-cancer refers to publications that examine more than 1 oncology area. The term “multi-disease” corresponds to studies in which data from at least 1 of the oncology areas of interest and from other diseases were analysed using FL. FL: federated learning.