Methods and tools for healthcare data anonymization: a literature review

O Vovk, G Piho, P Ross - International Journal of General Systems, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Healthcare is a rapidly evolving field. Such development creates opportunities to provide
better quality, evidence-based treatment, however, increasing privacy violations …

Toward privacy preservation using clustering based anonymization: recent advances and future research outlook

A Majeed, S Khan, SO Hwang - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the continuous increase in avenues of personal data generation, privacy protection has
become a hot research topic resulting in various proposed mechanisms to address this …

A decision-support framework for data anonymization with application to machine learning processes

L Caruccio, D Desiato, G Polese, G Tortora… - Information …, 2022 - Elsevier
The application of machine learning techniques to large and distributed data archives might
result in the disclosure of sensitive information about the data subjects. Data often contain …

A comprehensive analysis of privacy protection techniques developed for COVID-19 pandemic

A Majeed, SO Hwang - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the emergence of coronavirus disease–2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, every country has
implemented digital solutions in the form of mobile applications, web-based frameworks …

[HTML][HTML] KAB: A new k-anonymity approach based on black hole algorithm

L Kacha, A Zitouni, M Djoudi - Journal of King Saud University-Computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
K-anonymity is the most widely used approach to privacy preserving microdata which is
mainly based on generalization. Although generalization-based k-anonymity approaches …

K-anonymity privacy protection algorithm for multi-dimensional data against skewness and similarity attacks

B Su, J Huang, K Miao, Z Wang, X Zhang, Y Chen - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Currently, a significant focus has been established on the privacy protection of multi-
dimensional data publishing in various application scenarios, such as scientific research …

Towards optimization of privacy-utility trade-off using similarity and diversity based clustering

A Majeed, S Khan, SO Hwang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most data owners publish personal data for information consumers, which is used for hidden
knowledge discovery. But data publishing in its original form may be subjected to unwanted …

Privacy preserving dynamic data release against synonymous linkage based on microaggregation

Y Yan, AH Eyeleko, A Mahmood, J Li, Z Dong, F Xu - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The rapid development of the mobile Internet coupled with the widespread use of intelligent
terminals have intensified the digitization of personal information and accelerated the …

Solving Truthfulness-Privacy Trade-off in Mixed Data Outsourcing by Using Data Balancing and Attribute Correlation-Aware Differential Privacy

A Majeed, SO Hwang - IEEE Access, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the modern era, data of diverse types (medical, financial, etc.) are outsourced from data
owner environments to the public domains for data mining and knowledge discovery …

A Data-Centric -Diversity Model for Securely Publishing Personal Data With Enhanced Utility

A Majeed, SO Hwang - IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose and implement a novel anonymization model, called data-centric-
diversity, to effectively safeguard the privacy of individuals with considerably enhanced utility …