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Generative adversarial networks and synthetic patient data: current challenges and future perspectives

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Arora, Anmol, Arora, Ananya·2022·Future Healthcare Journal

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been heralded as one of the key technological innovations of the 21st century. Within healthcare, much attention has been placed upon the ability of deductive AI systems to analyse large datasets to find patterns that would be unfeasible to program. Generative AI, including generative adversarial networks, are a newer type of machine learning that functions to create fake data after learning the properties of real data. Artificially generated patient data has the potential to revolutionise clinical research and protect patient privacy. Using novel techniques, it is increasingly possible to fully anonymise datasets to the point where no datapoint is traceable to any real individual. This can be used to expand and balance datasets as well as to replace the use of real patient data in certain contexts. This paper focuses upon three key uses of synthetic data: clinical research, data privacy and medical education. We also highlight ethical and practical concerns that require consideration.

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  • Generative AI aims to address various medical conditions, from chronic diseases like diabetes to acute conditions like stroke.

    “Generative AI aims to address various medical conditions, from chronic diseases like diabetes to acute conditions like stroke [6, 38, 60].”

    From Generative AI in healthcare: an implementation science informed translational path on application, integration and governance (2024) · cites this paper as [6]

    The Introduction mentions diabetes as a condition for which AI predictive models have been developed, but identifies that statement as text generated by GPT-3, not a finding about generative AI applications. The Clinical research and Conclusion sections discuss generative AI’s potential to improve healthcare broadly; they do not identify stroke or establish the claimed chronic-to-acute range. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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  • Generative AI models, such as GANs, can be used for tasks like synthesising medical images or generating patient data.

    “Generative AI models, such as GANs, can be used for tasks like synthesising medical images or generating patient data [6, 37).”

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Authors
Arora, A., & Arora, A.
Affiliations
University of Cambridge (GB)
Venue
Future Healthcare Journal
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2022-07
Volume
9
Issue
2
Pages
190-193
ISSN
2514-6645 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4288455572
Cited by
161
References
18
Citations by year
2026: 20 · 2025: 58 · 2024: 51 · 2023: 31 · 2022: 1
FWCI
10.63
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Future Healthcare Journal (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning in Healthcare
Keywords
generative adversarial networks, synthetic patient data, synthetic data generation, clinical research, data privacy, data anonymization, data balancing, medical education, ethical considerations, artificial intelligence in healthcare

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