Privacy Preserving Classification of Biomedical Data With Secure Removing of Duplicate Records

Classifying data is to automatically assign predefined classes to data. It is one of the main applications of data mining. Having complete access to all data is critical for building accurate models. Data can be highly sensitive, such as biomedical data, which cannot be disclosed or shared with third party, because it can harm individuals and organizations. The challenge is how to preserve privacy and usefulness of data. Privacy preserving classification addresses this problem. Collaborative models are constructed over networks without violating the data owners' privacy. In this article, the authors address two problems: privacy records deduplication of the same records and privacy-preserving classification. They propose a randomized hash technic for deduplication and an enhanced privacy preserving classification of biomedical data over horizontally distributed data based on two homomorphic encryptions. No private, intermediate or final results are disclosed. Experimentations show that their solution is efficient and secure without loss of accuracy.