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Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are commonly used by the machine learning community for research on problems specifically related to health care and medicine. EHRs have the advantages that they can be easily distributed and contain many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Kieran Chin-Cheong , Thomas Sutter , Julia E. Vogt

Synthetic Electronic Health Record (EHR) time-series generation is crucial for advancing clinical machine learning models, as it helps address data scarcity by providing more training data. However, most existing approaches focus primarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Bowen Deng , Chang Xu , Hao Li , Yuhao Huang , Min Hou , Jiang Bian

We introduce DP-FinDiff, a differentially private diffusion framework for synthesizing mixed-type tabular data. DP-FinDiff employs embedding-based representations for categorical features, reducing encoding overhead and scaling to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

The widespread adoption of dynamic Time-of-Use (dToU) electricity tariffs requires accurately identifying households that would benefit from such pricing structures. However, the use of real consumption data poses serious privacy concerns,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Andre Catarino , Rui Melo , Rui Abreu , Luis Cruz

Health risk prediction is one of the fundamental tasks under predictive modeling in the medical domain, which aims to forecast the potential health risks that patients may face in the future using their historical Electronic Health Records…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Yuan Zhong , Suhan Cui , Jiaqi Wang , Xiaochen Wang , Ziyi Yin , Yaqing Wang , Houping Xiao , Mengdi Huai , Ting Wang , Fenglong Ma

Generating synthetic Electronic Health Records (EHRs) offers significant potential for data augmentation, privacy-preserving data sharing, and improving machine learning model training. We propose a novel tokenization strategy tailored for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Hojjat Karami , David Atienza , Anisoara Ionescu

Synthetic Electronic Health Records (EHR) have emerged as a pivotal tool in advancing healthcare applications and machine learning models, particularly for researchers without direct access to healthcare data. Although existing methods,…

Synthetic Electronic Health Records (EHRs) offer a valuable opportunity to create privacy preserving and harmonized structured data, supporting numerous applications in healthcare. Key benefits of synthetic data include precise control over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yihan Lin , Zhirong Bella Yu , Simon Lee

Privacy concerns around sharing personally identifiable information are a major practical barrier to data sharing in medical research. However, in many cases, researchers have no interest in a particular individual's information but rather…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-18 August DuMont Schütte , Jürgen Hetzel , Sergios Gatidis , Tobias Hepp , Benedikt Dietz , Stefan Bauer , Patrick Schwab

This article provides a comprehensive synthesis of the recent developments in synthetic data generation via deep generative models, focusing on tabular datasets. We specifically outline the importance of synthetic data generation in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Conor Hassan , Robert Salomone , Kerrie Mengersen

The sharing of microdata, such as fund holdings and derivative instruments, by regulatory institutions presents a unique challenge due to strict data confidentiality and privacy regulations. These challenges often hinder the ability of both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

Preservation of private user data is of paramount importance for high Quality of Experience (QoE) and acceptability, particularly with services treating sensitive data, such as IT-based health services. Whereas anonymization techniques were…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Navid Ashrafi , Vera Schmitt , Robert P. Spang , Sebastian Möller , Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons

Synthesizing high-quality tabular data is an important topic in many data science tasks, ranging from dataset augmentation to privacy protection. However, developing expressive generative models for tabular data is challenging due to its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Juntong Shi , Minkai Xu , Harper Hua , Hengrui Zhang , Stefano Ermon , Jure Leskovec

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a widely used, non-invasive method for capturing brain activity, and is particularly relevant for applications in Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI). However, collecting high-quality EEG data remains a major…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Henrique de Lima Alexandre , Clodoaldo Aparecido de Moraes Lima

Diffusion models are increasingly being utilised to create synthetic tabular and time series data for privacy-preserving augmentation. Tabular Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (TabDDPM) generate high-quality synthetic data from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Umang Dobhal , Christina Garcia , Sozo Inoue

The increasing demand for privacy-preserving data analytics in various domains necessitates solutions for synthetic data generation that rigorously uphold privacy standards. We introduce the DP-FedTabDiff framework, a novel integration of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

The widespread adoption of electronic health records and digital healthcare data has created a demand for data-driven insights to enhance patient outcomes, diagnostics, and treatments. However, using real patient data presents privacy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Aryan Jadon , Shashank Kumar

Sensitive medical data is often subject to strict usage constraints. In this paper, we trained a generative adversarial network (GAN) on real-world electronic health records (EHR). It was then used to create a data-set of "fake" patients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 John Weldon , Tomas Ward , Eoin Brophy

Synthetic data generation is a promising solution to address privacy issues with the distribution of sensitive health data. Recently, diffusion models have set new standards for generative models for different data modalities. Also very…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Juan Miguel Lopez Alcaraz , Nils Strodthoff

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