Deep Learning-based Patient Re-identification Is able to Exploit the Biometric Nature of Medical Chest X-ray Data. (arXiv:2103.08562v4 [cs.CV] UPDATED)

With the rise and ever-increasing potential of deep learning techniques in
recent years, publicly available medical datasets became a key factor to enable
reproducible development of diagnostic algorithms in the medical domain.
Medical data contains sensitive patient-related information and is therefore
usually anonymized by removing patient identifiers, e.g., patient names before
publication. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to show that a
well-trained deep learning system is able to recover the patient identity from
chest X-ray …

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