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A Utility-preserving De-identification Pipeline for Cross-hospital Radiology Data Sharing

Ashu Gupta, Chenhao Liu, Junjie Zhu, Syed M. S. Islam, Tom Gedeon, Xinyu Tian, Yan Tong, Yuchi Liu, Yue Yao, Zelin Wen

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keywords de-identificationradiology data sharingprivacy preservationmedical imagingcross-hospital transfergenerative filteringchest X-rayutility preservation
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The pith

A pipeline generates synthetic radiology images that remove privacy details while keeping diagnostic features for AI training.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces a utility-preserving de-identification pipeline for sharing radiology data across hospitals without violating privacy rules. It builds a blacklist of sensitive terms and a whitelist of pathology terms, then applies a generative filtering step to produce synthetic image versions that hide identity information but retain disease cues, along with filtered reports. Experiments on public chest X-ray benchmarks show models trained on these de-identified images reach diagnostic accuracy close to models trained on the originals, while identity recognition accuracy drops sharply. In cross-hospital tests, mixing the de-identified data with local hospital data improves model performance over using local data alone.

Core claim

The UPDP pipeline compiles privacy blacklists and pathology whitelists to guide synthesis of privacy-filtered image counterparts and ID-filtered reports, such that models trained on the resulting data maintain competitive diagnostic accuracy while showing reduced identity inference accuracy and enable performance gains when combined with local data in cross-hospital settings.

What carries the argument

The generative filtering mechanism that synthesizes privacy-filtered and pathology-reserved image counterparts from original radiology images, guided by term blacklists and whitelists.

If this is right

  • Models trained on the de-identified data maintain competitive diagnostic accuracy compared with those trained on the original data.
  • Identity-related accuracy exhibits a marked decline on de-identified data, confirming privacy protection.
  • De-identified data combined with local data yields better performance than local data alone in cross-hospital settings.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The approach could support creation of larger pooled radiology datasets for training more robust medical AI systems.
  • Hospitals might adopt similar pipelines to meet privacy regulations while still advancing collaborative model development.
  • The filtering technique could extend to other imaging modalities if the synthesis step generalizes beyond chest X-rays.

Load-bearing premise

The generative filtering mechanism can reliably synthesize image counterparts that eliminate privacy-sensitive information without introducing artifacts or altering pathology cues in ways that degrade downstream diagnostic model performance.

What would settle it

If models trained on the de-identified images show substantially lower accuracy on pathology detection tasks than models trained on the original images, or if identity-related accuracy does not decline, the utility-preserving claim would not hold.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.07128 by Ashu Gupta, Chenhao Liu, Junjie Zhu, Syed M. S. Islam, Tom Gedeon, Xinyu Tian, Yan Tong, Yuchi Liu, Yue Yao, Zelin Wen.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Limitations of real radiology data for cross-hospital [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of the utility-preserving De-identification pipeline. Given an real image-report pair, we extract image and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: (Left): Effectiveness of De-identification. (Right): Effectiveness of utility-preserving evaluation using Bert Score and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Comparison of generated chest X-rays across different content optimization iterations with corresponding SSIM (%) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative comparison of synthetic chest X-rays generated from raw reports and optimized contents. Optimized [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
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Large-scale radiology data are critical for developing robust medical AI systems. However, sharing such data across hospitals remains heavily constrained by privacy concerns. Existing de-identification research in radiology mainly focus on removing identifiable information to enable compliant data release. Yet whether de-identified radiology data can still preserve sufficient utility for large-scale vision-language model training and cross-hospital transfer remains underexplored. In this paper, we introduce a utility-preserving de-identification pipeline (UPDP) for cross-hospital radiology data sharing. Specifically, we compile a blacklist of privacy-sensitive terms and a whitelist of pathology-related terms. For radiology images, we use a generative filtering mechanism that synthesis a privacy-filtered and pathology-reserved counterparts of the original images. These synthetic image counterparts, together with ID-filtered reports, can then be securely shared across hospitals for downstream model development and evaluation. Experiments on public chest X-ray benchmarks demonstrate that our method effectively removes privacy-sensitive information while preserving diagnostically relevant pathology cues. Models trained on the de-identified data maintain competitive diagnostic accuracy compared with those trained on the original data, while exhibiting a marked decline in identity-related accuracy, confirming effective privacy protection. In the cross-hospital setting, we further show that de-identified data can be combined with local data to yield better performance.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces a utility-preserving de-identification pipeline (UPDP) for cross-hospital radiology data sharing. It compiles blacklists of privacy-sensitive terms and whitelists of pathology terms for reports, then applies a generative filtering mechanism to synthesize privacy-filtered image counterparts that aim to remove identity cues while preserving diagnostic pathology information. The de-identified images and filtered reports are intended for secure sharing. Experiments on public chest X-ray benchmarks are claimed to show that models trained on the de-identified data achieve competitive diagnostic accuracy relative to original data, with reduced identity-related accuracy, and that combining de-identified data with local data improves cross-hospital performance.

Significance. If the generative filtering reliably removes privacy-sensitive features without degrading pathology cues or introducing artifacts, the work could meaningfully advance privacy-compliant sharing of large radiology datasets, supporting better training of vision-language models and improved generalization across institutions. The dual focus on images and reports, plus the cross-hospital evaluation, addresses a practical barrier in medical AI.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central claims that de-identified data yields 'competitive diagnostic accuracy' and a 'marked decline in identity-related accuracy' (plus improved cross-hospital performance) are asserted without any quantitative numbers, baselines, error bars, statistical tests, or specific metrics. This absence prevents evaluation of whether the generative filtering mechanism actually achieves the stated privacy-utility tradeoff or if performance differences arise from other factors.
  2. [Method] Method (generative filtering description): No architecture, training objective, loss terms balancing privacy removal against pathology preservation, hyperparameters, or fidelity metrics (e.g., reconstruction error or feature similarity) are provided for the generative model that synthesizes image counterparts. Without these details the claim that synthetic images 'eliminate privacy-sensitive information without introducing artifacts or altering pathology cues' cannot be assessed and is load-bearing for all downstream empirical assertions.
  3. [Experiments] Experiments: No tables, figures, or specific results are referenced that report diagnostic accuracy, identity accuracy, dataset sizes, baselines (e.g., standard de-identification methods), or cross-hospital transfer numbers. The absence of such evidence undermines the experimental validation of the pipeline.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: 'that synthesis a privacy-filtered' is grammatically incorrect and should read 'that synthesizes a privacy-filtered'.
  2. [Abstract] The abstract refers to 'public chest X-ray benchmarks' without naming the specific datasets (e.g., MIMIC-CXR, CheXpert) used; this should be stated explicitly for reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback on our manuscript. We appreciate the emphasis on providing quantitative evidence and methodological specifics to support the claims. We address each major comment below and have revised the manuscript to incorporate the requested details.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claims that de-identified data yields 'competitive diagnostic accuracy' and a 'marked decline in identity-related accuracy' (plus improved cross-hospital performance) are asserted without any quantitative numbers, baselines, error bars, statistical tests, or specific metrics. This absence prevents evaluation of whether the generative filtering mechanism actually achieves the stated privacy-utility tradeoff or if performance differences arise from other factors.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would be strengthened by including quantitative support for the central claims. In the revised manuscript, we have expanded the abstract to report specific metrics including diagnostic accuracy values with baselines, identity-related accuracy reductions, cross-hospital performance improvements, and references to error bars and statistical tests from the experiments. This allows direct evaluation of the privacy-utility tradeoff. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Method] Method (generative filtering description): No architecture, training objective, loss terms balancing privacy removal against pathology preservation, hyperparameters, or fidelity metrics (e.g., reconstruction error or feature similarity) are provided for the generative model that synthesizes image counterparts. Without these details the claim that synthetic images 'eliminate privacy-sensitive information without introducing artifacts or altering pathology cues' cannot be assessed and is load-bearing for all downstream empirical assertions.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the original method description was high-level and omitted implementation specifics. The revised manuscript now includes the full architecture of the generative model, the training objective with explicit loss terms for privacy removal versus pathology preservation, all hyperparameters, and fidelity metrics such as reconstruction error and feature similarity. These additions enable assessment of the claims regarding artifact-free synthesis and pathology preservation. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments: No tables, figures, or specific results are referenced that report diagnostic accuracy, identity accuracy, dataset sizes, baselines (e.g., standard de-identification methods), or cross-hospital transfer numbers. The absence of such evidence undermines the experimental validation of the pipeline.

    Authors: We agree that the experiments section requires concrete results for validation. The revised version now includes tables and figures reporting diagnostic accuracy, identity accuracy, dataset sizes, comparisons against standard de-identification baselines, and cross-hospital transfer numbers, along with the associated statistical details. This provides the empirical support for the pipeline's effectiveness. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper presents an empirical utility-preserving de-identification pipeline (UPDP) based on blacklists/whitelists for reports and a generative filtering mechanism for images, evaluated via experiments on public chest X-ray benchmarks. Claims rest on observed outcomes (competitive diagnostic accuracy, reduced identity accuracy, improved cross-hospital performance) rather than any derivation, equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citation chains. No load-bearing steps reduce to inputs by construction; the work is self-contained against external datasets with no mathematical derivation chain to inspect.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

The paper is an empirical engineering contribution with no explicit mathematical axioms, free parameters, or newly postulated entities described in the abstract. Implementation choices such as term lists and the generative model are treated as engineering decisions rather than theoretical primitives.

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