Fairness-Aware Medical Image Analysis for Consumer Electronics Under Imbalanced Data

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Authors: Yurong Yu, ChunNian Liu, Chinmay Chakraborty, Manisha Guduri, Feng Ding
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Abstract

Consumer health electronic systems increasingly rely on the seamless integration of sensing, communication, computing, and control to deliver intelligent, adaptive, and context-aware services. However, under imbalanced environments and heterogeneous network conditions, these integrated systems often exhibit performance disparities that affect reliability and user trust. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for fair and robust integration of sensing, communication, computing, and control in consumer health electronics. Our approach adopts a three-fold strategy: (i) feature disentanglement to separate environment-dependent signals from task-relevant features, reducing bias in sensing and decision-making; (ii) a fairness-aware optimization scheme that balances resource allocation across diverse devices and network conditions, ensuring equitable performance; and (iii) loss landscape flattening through sharpness-aware optimization to enhance robustness against distribution shifts in communication channels and computing platforms. Extensive experiments on representative IoT and edge-computing benchmarks demonstrate that our method significantly improves both fairness and stability across heterogeneous consumer health scenarios, providing a promising direction for equitable and reliable smart device ecosystems.

Fields of Study & Subjects

IoT and Edge/Fog Computing Internet of Things and AI Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education

Publication details

Journal / source
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
Volume
72
Issue
2
Pages
4472–4482
Publication date
16 January 2026