Privacy-preserving brain tumor detection using FPGA-accelerated deep learning on Kria KV260 for smart healthcare

Abstract

Technological advancements in high-performance electronics have fueled the development of cutting-edge medical applications, leading to exponential growth in effective treatment and diagnostic solutions for various medical problems. Incorporating deep learning-based systems with medical imaging technologies has revolutionized the field of disease detection. Ensuring the security and privacy of patient’s health records is crucial to developing sophisticated medical imaging diagnostic applications. This paper presents a privacy-focused, vision-based approach for effective brain tumor detection using deep learning algorithms such as ResNet-18, ResNet-50, and InceptionV3, deployed on the KV260 board, which is based on Xilinx® Kria™ K26 System on Module (SOM) platform, a Zynq® UltraScale+ MPSoC. We have integrated the AES-128 cryptographic algorithm with the Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2 (PBKDF2) hashing algorithm to maintain patients' privacy in MRI scans. This ensures the protection of patient data on the server and data movement to and from external servers. The designed system is evaluated for performance by examining its technical metric parameters- accuracy, precision, F1 score, and Recall. Security parameters such as entropy, energy, contrast, and correlation are used to evaluate the security strength of the proposed system. Microsoft operating systems compatible web application is also developed while integrating the above-proposed system on the KV 260 FPGA board. This application can be used remotely to upload the MRI scans and get the prediction results quickly and accurately. Performance assessment shows that ResNet18 outperforms testing-related metric parameters and execution time on the KV260 FPGA board while keeping patient data confidential, making it an ideal edge-device implementation for real-time clinical use.