Blockchain-Enabled Federated Explainable AI for Robust Cyber Threat Detection in Smart Healthcare Systems
摘要
The increasing digitization of healthcare systems and the proliferation of medical IoT devices have heightened the risk of cyber threats, making robust, transparent, and privacy-preserving security solutions essential. In this paper, we propose B-FXAI, a novel framework that integrates Federated Learning (FL), Blockchain, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for real-time and accountable threat detection in smart healthcare environments. By leveraging FL, sensitive patient data remains local while allowing collaborative training across institutions. A permissioned blockchain ensures trust, immutability, and verifiability of model updates, while SHAP-based explainability provides interpretable insights into model predictions. Our experiments on benchmark cybersecurity datasets TON_IoT, CIC-IDS2017, and MedBIoT demonstrate that B-FXAI achieves superior accuracy (up to 96.2%), reduces false positives (down to 2.7%), and maintains high interpretability coverage. The proposed framework outperforms centralized and baseline federated models, offering a scalable, transparent, and privacy-preserving solution for critical infrastructures such as healthcare systems.