Masked Clinical Modelling: A Framework for Synthetic and Augmented Survival Data Generation
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| author | Kuo, Nicholas I-Hsien Gallego, Blanca Jorm, Louisa |
| author_facet | Kuo, Nicholas I-Hsien Gallego, Blanca Jorm, Louisa |
| contents | Access to real clinical data is often restricted due to privacy obligations, creating significant barriers for healthcare research. Synthetic datasets provide a promising solution, enabling secure data sharing and model development. However, most existing approaches focus on data realism rather than utility -- ensuring that models trained on synthetic data yield clinically meaningful insights comparable to those trained on real data. In this paper, we present Masked Clinical Modelling (MCM), a framework inspired by masked language modelling, designed for both data synthesis and conditional data augmentation. We evaluate this prototype on the WHAS500 dataset using Cox Proportional Hazards models, focusing on the preservation of hazard ratios as key clinical metrics. Our results show that data generated using the MCM framework improves both discrimination and calibration in survival analysis, outperforming existing methods. MCM demonstrates strong potential to support survival data analysis and broader healthcare applications. |
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| spellingShingle | Masked Clinical Modelling: A Framework for Synthetic and Augmented Survival Data Generation Kuo, Nicholas I-Hsien Gallego, Blanca Jorm, Louisa Machine Learning Access to real clinical data is often restricted due to privacy obligations, creating significant barriers for healthcare research. Synthetic datasets provide a promising solution, enabling secure data sharing and model development. However, most existing approaches focus on data realism rather than utility -- ensuring that models trained on synthetic data yield clinically meaningful insights comparable to those trained on real data. In this paper, we present Masked Clinical Modelling (MCM), a framework inspired by masked language modelling, designed for both data synthesis and conditional data augmentation. We evaluate this prototype on the WHAS500 dataset using Cox Proportional Hazards models, focusing on the preservation of hazard ratios as key clinical metrics. Our results show that data generated using the MCM framework improves both discrimination and calibration in survival analysis, outperforming existing methods. MCM demonstrates strong potential to support survival data analysis and broader healthcare applications. |
| title | Masked Clinical Modelling: A Framework for Synthetic and Augmented Survival Data Generation |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16811 |