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| author | Bartell, Jennifer A Valentin, Sander Boisen Krogh, Anders Langberg, Henning Bøgsted, Martin |
| author_facet | Bartell, Jennifer A Valentin, Sander Boisen Krogh, Anders Langberg, Henning Bøgsted, Martin |
| contents | Recent advances in deep generative models have greatly expanded the potential to create realistic synthetic health datasets. These synthetic datasets aim to preserve the characteristics, patterns, and overall scientific conclusions derived from sensitive health datasets without disclosing patient identity or sensitive information. Thus, synthetic data can facilitate safe data sharing that supports a range of initiatives including the development of new predictive models, advanced health IT platforms, and general project ideation and hypothesis development. However, many questions and challenges remain, including how to consistently evaluate a synthetic dataset's similarity and predictive utility in comparison to the original real dataset and risk to privacy when shared. Additional regulatory and governance issues have not been widely addressed. In this primer, we map the state of synthetic health data, including generation and evaluation methods and tools, existing examples of deployment, the regulatory and ethical landscape, access and governance options, and opportunities for further development. |
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| spellingShingle | A primer on synthetic health data Bartell, Jennifer A Valentin, Sander Boisen Krogh, Anders Langberg, Henning Bøgsted, Martin Machine Learning Recent advances in deep generative models have greatly expanded the potential to create realistic synthetic health datasets. These synthetic datasets aim to preserve the characteristics, patterns, and overall scientific conclusions derived from sensitive health datasets without disclosing patient identity or sensitive information. Thus, synthetic data can facilitate safe data sharing that supports a range of initiatives including the development of new predictive models, advanced health IT platforms, and general project ideation and hypothesis development. However, many questions and challenges remain, including how to consistently evaluate a synthetic dataset's similarity and predictive utility in comparison to the original real dataset and risk to privacy when shared. Additional regulatory and governance issues have not been widely addressed. In this primer, we map the state of synthetic health data, including generation and evaluation methods and tools, existing examples of deployment, the regulatory and ethical landscape, access and governance options, and opportunities for further development. |
| title | A primer on synthetic health data |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17653 |