Constructing distributed Hippocratic video databases for privacy-preserving online patient training and counseling

IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed. 2010 Jul;14(4):1014-26. doi: 10.1109/TITB.2009.2029695. Epub 2009 Sep 1.

Abstract

Digital video now plays an important role in supporting more profitable online patient training and counseling, and integration of patient training videos from multiple competitive organizations in the health care network will result in better offerings for patients. However, privacy concerns often prevent multiple competitive organizations from sharing and integrating their patient training videos. In addition, patients with infectious or chronic diseases may not want the online patient training organizations to identify who they are or even which video clips they are interested in. Thus, there is an urgent need to develop more effective techniques to protect both video content privacy and access privacy . In this paper, we have developed a new approach to construct a distributed Hippocratic video database system for supporting more profitable online patient training and counseling. First, a new database modeling approach is developed to support concept-oriented video database organization and assign a degree of privacy of the video content for each database level automatically. Second, a new algorithm is developed to protect the video content privacy at the level of individual video clip by filtering out the privacy-sensitive human objects automatically. In order to integrate the patient training videos from multiple competitive organizations for constructing a centralized video database indexing structure, a privacy-preserving video sharing scheme is developed to support privacy-preserving distributed classifier training and prevent the statistical inferences from the videos that are shared for cross-validation of video classifiers. Our experiments on large-scale video databases have also provided very convincing results.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Counseling*
  • Patient Education as Topic*
  • Privacy*
  • Videotape Recording*

Grants and funding

This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant 0601542-IIS and Grant 0208539-IIS, and by a Grant-in-Aid for scientific research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The work of H. Luo was supported by Shanghai Pujiang Program under Grant 08PJ1404600 and National Science Foundation of China under Grant 60803077. The work of J. Peng was supported by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University under Grant NCET-07-0693 and by the National Science Foundation of China under Grant 60875016. The work of J. Fan was also supported by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University under Grant NCET-10-0071.