Leveraging federated learning for boosting data privacy and performance in IVF embryo selection

To study the effectiveness of federated learning in in vitro fertilization on embryo evaluation tasks. This is a retrospective cohort analysis. Two datasets were used in this study. The ploidy status dataset consisted of 10,065 embryo records, 3760 treatments, and 2479 infertile couples from 5 hospitals. The clinical pregnancy dataset consisted of 4495 embryo records, 4495 treatments, and 3704 infertile couples from 4 hospitals. Federated learning and the gradient boosting decision tree algorithm were utilized for modeling. On the ploidy status dataset, the areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves of our model trained with federated learning were 71.78