Academic Background and Problem Statement With the increasing prominence of data privacy issues, Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a decentralized machine learning paradigm, allowing multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model without sharing data, thereby protecting data privacy. However, existing FL methods typically assume that...

Model-Heterogeneous Semi-Supervised Federated Learning for Medical Image Segmentation Background Introduction Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in clinical diagnosis as it helps doctors identify and analyze diseases. However, this task typically faces challenges such as sensitive data, privacy issues, and expensive annotation costs. W...