Call for Papers
Scope
FLHA focuses on federated learning methods, systems, and real-world deployments for healthcare applications. We welcome submissions spanning algorithms, privacy and security, clinical constraints, and operational experiences.
Topics of Interest
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Federated survival models
- Federated optimization and personalization for healthcare
- Cross-silo learning across institutions and consortia
- Privacy and security for healthcare FL (secure aggregation, DP, TEEs, cryptography)
- Robustness and reliability (poisoning defenses, monitoring, safe training)
- Fairness and bias mitigation with clinical relevance
- Handling heterogeneity: non-IID data, label shift, missingness, multi-modal data
- Federated learning for imaging, EHR, genomics, and remote monitoring
- System design: communication efficiency, scheduling, client selection, edge deployments
- Evaluation methodology, benchmarks, and reproducible pipelines
- Governance, auditing, regulatory and ethical considerations
- Lessons learned from deployments in hospitals and clinical workflows
Submission Tracks and Expected Length
Please choose one track when submitting:
- Full papers: mature contributions with thorough evaluation
Recommended length: 8–9 pages (excluding references) - Short or position papers: early ideas, focused contributions, lessons learned
Recommended length: 4–6 pages (excluding references) - Posters: work in progress, preliminary results, demos, datasets, systems
Recommended length: 1–2 pages (excluding references)
Review Criteria
Submissions will be evaluated on:
- Relevance to federated learning in healthcare
- Originality and technical quality
- Clarity of problem statement and contribution
- Soundness of evaluation or strength of motivation (for position and posters)
- Responsible handling of healthcare constraints (privacy, bias, governance)
Ethics and Responsible Research
For work involving human data, authors should describe the data governance context and privacy safeguards. If applicable, briefly state approval or exemption status and de-identification procedures.
Presentation
All accepted contributions will be presented at the workshop:
- Full and short papers: oral talk or lightning talk (to be assigned)
- Posters: poster session presentation