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      <MainHeadline>Text</MainHeadline><Pgraph><Mark1>Introduction:</Mark1> Ideally, centrally collecting and analyzing patient data with appropriate consent would provide optimal data quality and predictive performance; however, this approach is often not feasible in practice. Federated Learning (FL) or Federated Artificial Intelligence architectures have shown to be a promising approach to using and accessing distributed disease-related resources within the GDPR boundaries. This technical case report from the FAIrPaCT project describes the setup and implementation of a federated AI network infrastructure specifically designed for collaborative research in pancreatic cancer. We characterize the preconditions at the participating sites in G&#246;ttingen, Marburg, and Munich, as well as the necessary administrative and process-related steps to prepare data, individuals, and infrastructure to improve subtype identification and subsequent treatment options. We share our good and also sobering experiences tackling the challenges, and show some preliminary results of the federated learning AI pipelines in our pancreatic cancer projects.</Pgraph><Pgraph><Mark1>Methods:</Mark1> At each participating site, the process begins with identifying and annotating the relevant data, which,  after extraction and transformation, becomes accessible within a local FL hub - in our setup, this hub is implemented as a centrally developed and distributively deployed Docker container. This Docker container comprises the FL scripts generating the local models. We apply a newly developed Fed4POD algorithm incorporating all local features, including partial overlapping features specific to the local sites.</Pgraph><Pgraph><Mark1>Results:</Mark1> Clinical data in cancer settings can be exported from the source systems in the standardized German oncology core data set (oBDS) format. Theoretically, this enables seamless further processing and integration into FL workflows. The pilot evaluation of the Fed4POD algorithm on multiple public data sets, including PDAC, showed robustness when processing the partially overlapping features. However, challenges arise from local cohort and distribution biases within the data.</Pgraph><Pgraph>Major roadblocks, including straightening the operational data security concepts for the infrastructures, the ethics approval for such novel architectures, and support for every site, have been addressed. Nevertheless,  scaling up this approach to include broader multimodal data sets at collaborating sites appears feasible, while challenges remain in the envisioned large-scale deployment across many additional diverse healthcare institutions.</Pgraph><Pgraph><Mark1>Conclusion:</Mark1> Federated architectures offer a promising approach for collaborative research and potential clinical use across different institutions and heterogeneous data availability. The experiences and knowledge gained throughout the two FAIrPaCT projects have the potential to lower the barrier for federated endeavors, paving the way for large-scale deployment across many additional sites that present considerable challenges in the future.</Pgraph><Pgraph>The authors declare that they have no competing interests.</Pgraph><Pgraph>The authors declare that a positive ethics committee vote has been obtained.</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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