vantage6-server 1.0.0b3

Vantage6 server

Introduction

The growing complexity of cancer diagnosis and treatment requires data sets that are larger than currently available in a single hospital or even in cancer registries. However, sharing patient data is difficult due to patient privacy and data protection needs. Federated learning technology has the potential to overcome these limitations. In this approach, organizations can collaborate by exchanging aggregated data and/or statistics while keeping the underlying data safely on site and undisclosed. This repository contains software (and instructions) to setup a federated learning infrastructure.

For an overview of the architecture and information on how to use the infrastructure, please see https://vantage6.ai. For documentation, please see https://docs.distributedlearning.ai/.

Hardware and software requirements

Running the central server requires a (virtual) machine that:

• is accessible from the internet
• has Python 3.6+ and the ppdli package installed (pip install vantage6-server)

Installation

See the documentation for detailed instructions on how to install the server and nodes.