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This paper presents a novel approach to simulating electronic health records (EHRs) using diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs). Specifically, we demonstrate the effectiveness of DPMs in synthesising longitudinal EHRs that capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Nicholas I-Hsien Kuo , Louisa Jorm , Sebastiano Barbieri

Access to electronic health records (EHRs) for digital health research is often limited by privacy regulations and institutional barriers. Synthetic EHRs have been proposed as a way to enable safe and sovereign data sharing; however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Guanglin Zhou , Armin Catic , Motahare Shabestari , Matthew Young , Chaiquan Li , Katrina Poppe , Sebastiano Barbieri

The widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and subsequent increased availability of longitudinal healthcare data has led to significant advances in our understanding of health and disease with direct and immediate impact on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Simon Bing , Andrea Dittadi , Stefan Bauer , Patrick Schwab

Privacy is an important concern for our society where sharing data with partners or releasing data to the public is a frequent occurrence. Some of the techniques that are being used to achieve privacy are to remove identifiers, alter…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Noseong Park , Mahmoud Mohammadi , Kshitij Gorde , Sushil Jajodia , Hongkyu Park , Youngmin Kim

Typical personal medical data contains sensitive information about individuals. Storing or sharing the personal medical data is thus often risky. For example, a short DNA sequence can provide information that can not only identify an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Ho Bae , Dahuin Jung , Sungroh Yoon

Synthesizing electronic health records (EHR) data has become a preferred strategy to address data scarcity, improve data quality, and model fairness in healthcare. However, existing approaches for EHR data generation predominantly rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yuan Zhong , Xiaochen Wang , Jiaqi Wang , Xiaokun Zhang , Yaqing Wang , Mengdi Huai , Cao Xiao , Fenglong Ma

Early detection of breast cancer in mammography screening via deep-learning based computer-aided detection systems shows promising potential in improving the curability and mortality rates of breast cancer. However, many clinical centres…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Zuzanna Szafranowska , Richard Osuala , Bennet Breier , Kaisar Kushibar , Karim Lekadir , Oliver Diaz

Electronic health records (EHR's) are only a first step in capturing and utilizing health-related data - the problem is turning that data into useful information. Models produced via data mining and predictive analysis profile inherited…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-12-08 Casey Bennett , Thomas Doub

Electronic health records (EHR) are rich heterogeneous collection of patient health information, whose broad adoption provides great opportunities for systematic health data mining. However, heterogeneous EHR data types and biased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Yue Li , Manolis Kellis

A variety of methods existing for generating synthetic electronic health records (EHRs), but they are not capable of generating unstructured text, like emergency department (ED) chief complaints, history of present illness or progress…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Scott Lee

Mining Electronic Health Records (EHRs) becomes a promising topic because of the rich information they contain. By learning from EHRs, machine learning models can be built to help human experts to make medical decisions and thus improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Zheng Liu , Xiaohan Li , Hao Peng , Lifang He , Philip S. Yu

Insufficient training data is a major bottleneck for most deep learning practices, not least in medical imaging where data is difficult to collect and publicly available datasets are scarce due to ethics and privacy. This work investigates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Gabriel Eilertsen , Apostolia Tsirikoglou , Claes Lundström , Jonas Unger

Synthetic data generation offers a promising solution to enhance the usefulness of Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) by generating realistic de-identified data. However, the existing literature primarily focuses on the quality of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Resmi Ramachandranpillai , Md Fahim Sikder , David Bergström , Fredrik Heintz

Entity resolution targets at identifying records that represent the same real-world entity from one or more datasets. A major challenge in learning-based entity resolution is how to reduce the label cost for training. Due to the quadratic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Jingyu Shao , Qing Wang , Asiri Wijesinghe , Erhard Rahm

Electronic health records (EHRs) linked with familial relationship data offer a unique opportunity to investigate the genetic architecture of complex phenotypes at scale. However, existing heritability and coheritability estimation methods…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-12 Yinjun Zhao , Nicholas Tatonetti , Yuanjia Wang

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and its variants have recently attracted intensive research interests due to their elegant theoretical foundation and excellent empirical performance as generative models. These tools provide a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Liyang Xie , Kaixiang Lin , Shu Wang , Fei Wang , Jiayu Zhou

Clinical data usually cannot be freely distributed due to their highly confidential nature and this hampers the development of machine learning in the healthcare domain. One way to mitigate this problem is by generating realistic synthetic…

Deep learning models have demonstrated high-quality performance in areas such as image classification and speech processing. However, creating a deep learning model using electronic health record (EHR) data, requires addressing particular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Amirsina Torfi , Edward A. Fox

Synthetic medical data which preserves privacy while maintaining utility can be used as an alternative to real medical data, which has privacy costs and resource constraints associated with it. At present, most models focus on generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Saloni Dash , Ritik Dutta , Isabelle Guyon , Adrien Pavao , Andrew Yale , Kristin P. Bennett

In present technological era, healthcare providers generate huge amount of clinical data on daily basis. Generated clinical data is stored digitally in the form of Electronic Health Records (EHR) as a central data repository of hospitals.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Shahid Munir Shah , Rizwan Ahmed Khan