The FeatureCloud Platform for Federated Learning in Biomedicine: Unified Approach

Julian Matschinske   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Julian Späth   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Mohammad Bakhtiari   ¹ , MSc ;   Niklas Probul   ¹ , MSc ;   Mohammad Mahdi Kazemi Majdabadi   ¹ , MSc ;   Reza Nasirigerdeh   ² , MSc ;   Reihaneh Torkzadehmahani   ² , MSc ;   Anne Hartebrodt   ³ , MSc, PhD ;   Balazs-Attila Orban   ⁴ , MSc ;   Sándor-József Fejér   ⁴ , MSc ;   Olga Zolotareva   ² , PhD ;   Supratim Das   ¹ , MSc ;   Linda Baumbach   ⁵ , PhD ;   Josch K Pauling   ² , PhD ;   Olivera Tomašević   ⁶ , MSc ;   Béla Bihari   ⁴ , MSc ;   Marcus Bloice   ⁷ , MSc ;   Nina C Donner   ⁸ , PhD ;   Walid Fdhila   ⁹ , PhD ;   Tobias Frisch   ³ , PhD ;   Anne-Christin Hauschild   ¹⁰ , Prof Dr ;   Dominik Heider   ¹¹ , Prof Dr ;   Andreas Holzinger   ⁷ , Prof Dr ;   Walter Hötzendorfer   ¹² , Dr ;   Jan Hospes   ¹² , Mag iur ;   Tim Kacprowski   ¹³ , Prof Dr ;   Markus Kastelitz   ¹² , PhD ;   Markus List   ² , PhD ;   Rudolf Mayer   ⁹ , MSc ;   Mónika Moga   ⁴ , PhD ;   Heimo Müller   ⁷ , PhD ;   Anastasia Pustozerova   ⁹ , MSc ;   Richard Röttger   ³ , Prof Dr ;   Christina C Saak   ¹ , PhD ;   Anna Saranti   ⁷ , PhD ;   Harald H H W Schmidt   ¹⁴ , Prof Dr ;   Christof Tschohl   ¹² , Dr ;   Nina K Wenke   ¹ , PhD ;   Jan Baumbach   ¹ , Prof Dr

¹ University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

² Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany

³ University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

⁴ Gnome Design SRL, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania

⁵ University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

⁶ University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, RS

⁷ Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

⁸ Concentris Research Management gGmbH, Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany

⁹ SBA Research gGmbH, Vienna, Austria

¹⁰ University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

¹¹ Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

¹² Research Institute AG & Co KG, Vienna, Austria

¹³ Technical University Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School, Brunswick, Germany

¹⁴ Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands

*these authors contributed equally