Empowering Privacy-Preserving Research: Introducing the vantage6 Framework and GUI

Presentation on the vantage6 UI. This was done as part of a demo presented at the MIE conference 2024.

Answering questions in healthcare often requires combining data from different sources.
However, bringing together this data raises serious privacy concerns. Moreover, centralizing the data in one place is often not legally possible due to privacy regulations.
Techniques for federated analysis aim to enable researchers to do their analysis without giving them access to the raw data. It allows data-owners to stay in control while still
enabling researchers to perform their studies.
vantage6[1][2] is an open-source framework for privacy preserving analysis created
by the Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation (IKNL).

Conceptually, vantage6 consists of the following parts:
• A (central) server that coordinates communication with clients and nodes. The
server is in charge of processing tasks as well as handling administrative functions
such as authentication and authorization.
• One or more node(s) that have access to data and execute algorithms
• Users (i.e. researchers or other applications) that request computations from the
nodes via the client
• Organizations that are interested in collaborating. Each user belongs to one of
these organizations.
• A Docker registry that functions as a database of algorithms
vantage6 has already been used in various projects.