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Workshop: Synthetic Data Generation with Generative AI

Synthetic Health-related Longitudinal Data with Mixed-type Variables Generated using Diffusion Models

Nicholas Kuo · Louisa Jorm · Sebastiano Barbieri

Keywords: [ synthetic data; generative adversarial networks; diffusion models; electronic health records; mixed-typed dataset; time-series dataset ]


Abstract:

This paper introduces a novel method for simulating Electronic Health Records (EHRs) using Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs). We showcase the ability of DPMs to generate longitudinal EHRs with mixed-type variables – numeric, binary, and categorical. Our approach is benchmarked against existing Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)-based methods in two clinical scenarios: management of acute hypotension in the intensive care unit and antiretroviral therapy for people with human immunodeficiency virus. Our DPM-simulated datasets not only minimise patient disclosure risk but also outperform GAN-generated datasets in terms of realism. These datasets also prove effective for training downstream machine learning algorithms, including reinforcement learning and Cox proportional hazards models for survival analysis.

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