Supervised split federated learning for Alzheimer’s disease classification: an evaluation of deep neural networks
摘要
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, where early detection is crucial to slowing progression and improving patient outcomes. This study investigates the integration of Split Federated Learning (SFL) with neural networks for multiclass classification of AD stages: cognitively normal (CN), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and AD. We evaluated ResNet-50 and DenseNet-169 across federated settings with 3, 5, and 7 clients, using FedAvg, FedAvgM, and FedProx as aggregation algorithms. In Phase I (548 patients), DenseNet-169 with FedAvg achieved 86.97% ± 1.14% accuracy. In Phase II (1287 patients), ResNet-50 with FedProx (batch size 32, 3 clients) outperformed all configurations, reaching 99.26% ± 0.73% accuracy, 99.10% ± 0.96% F1-score, and 99.96% ± 0.06% AUC. Statistical validation confirmed significant improvements from Phase I to Phase II (