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Machine learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) have achieved remarkable success in many fields and have brought new opportunities and high expectation in the analyses of medical data. The most common type of medical data is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Jiaqi Guan , Runzhe Li , Sheng Yu , Xuegong Zhang

Medical image data is less accessible than in other domains due to privacy and regulatory constraints. In addition, labeling requires costly, time-intensive manual image annotation by clinical experts. To overcome these challenges,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Fangyijie Wang , Kevin Whelan , Félix Balado , Kathleen M. Curran , Guénolé Silvestre

We conduct a scoping review of existing approaches for synthetic EHR data generation, and benchmark major methods with proposed open-source software to offer recommendations for practitioners. We search three academic databases for our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Xingran Chen , Zhenke Wu , Xu Shi , Hyunghoon Cho , Bhramar Mukherjee

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

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in every stage of drug development. Continuing breakthroughs in AI-based methods for drug discovery require the creation, improvement, and refinement of drug discovery data. We posit a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Bing Hu , Ashish Saragadam , Anita Layton , Helen Chen

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

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) represent a promising class of generative networks that combine neural networks with game theory. From generating realistic images and videos to assisting musical creation, GANs are transforming many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Alexandre Yahi , Rami Vanguri , Noémie Elhadad , Nicholas P. Tatonetti

In medical imaging, the diffusion models have shown great potential for synthetic image generation tasks. However, these approaches often lack the interpretable connections between the generated and real images and can create anatomically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Jian-Qing Zheng , Yuanhan Mo , Yang Sun , Jiahua Li , Fuping Wu , Ziyang Wang , Tonia Vincent , Bartłomiej W. Papież

Generating realistic synthetic electronic health records (EHRs) holds tremendous promise for accelerating healthcare research, facilitating AI model development and enhancing patient privacy. However, existing generative methods typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Guanglin Zhou , Sebastiano Barbieri

Recent advances in generative modeling -- particularly diffusion models and flow matching -- have achieved remarkable success in synthesizing discrete data such as images and videos. However, adapting these models to physical applications…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sifan Wang , Zehao Dou , Siming Shan , Tong-Rui Liu , Lu Lu

In this paper, we introduce the first diffusion model designed to generate complete synthetic human genotypes, which, by standard protocols, one can straightforwardly expand into full-length, DNA-level genomes. The synthetic genotypes mimic…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Philip Kenneweg , Raghuram Dandinasivara , Xiao Luo , Barbara Hammer , Alexander Schönhuth

Accessing longitudinal multimodal Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs) is challenging due to privacy concerns, which hinders the use of ML for healthcare applications. Synthetic EHRs generation bypasses the need to share sensitive real…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Zifeng Wang , Jimeng Sun

Deep learning methods have impacted almost every research field, demonstrating notable successes in medical imaging tasks such as denoising and super-resolution. However, the prerequisite for deep learning is data at scale, but data sharing…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Yongyi Shi , Wenjun Xia , Chuang Niu , Christopher Wiedeman , Ge Wang

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Jennifer A Bartell , Sander Boisen Valentin , Anders Krogh , Henning Langberg , Martin Bøgsted

As neuromorphic sensors, event cameras asynchronously record changes in brightness as streams of sparse events with the advantages of high temporal resolution and high dynamic range. Reconstructing intensity images from events is a highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Weilun Li , Lei Sun , Ruixi Gao , Qi Jiang , Yuqin Ma , Kaiwei Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Luc Van Gool , Danda Pani Paudel

Diffusion Models represent a significant advancement in generative modeling, employing a dual-phase process that first degrades domain-specific information via Gaussian noise and restores it through a trainable model. This framework enables…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Benedikt Hartl , Yanbo Zhang , Hananel Hazan , Michael Levin

Diffusion Generative Models (DGM) have rapidly surfaced as emerging topics in the field of computer vision, garnering significant interest across a wide array of deep learning applications. Despite their high computational demand, these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Denisha Thakkar , Vincent Quoc-Huy Trinh , Sonal Varma , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Hassan Rivaz , Mahdi S. Hosseini

Generative models, particularly diffusion models, have made significant success in data synthesis across various modalities, including images, videos, and 3D assets. However, current diffusion models are computationally intensive, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yuanzhi Zhu , Hanshu Yan , Huan Yang , Kai Zhang , Junnan Li

Researchers require timely access to real-world longitudinal electronic health records (EHR) to develop, test, validate, and implement machine learning solutions that improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare. In contrast, health…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Siddharth Biswal , Soumya Ghosh , Jon Duke , Bradley Malin , Walter Stewart , Jimeng Sun

Electronic Health Records often suffer from missing data, which poses a major problem in clinical practice and clinical studies. A novel approach for dealing with missing data are Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs), which have been…

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