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  • Health Informatics
  • Biostatistics
  • Machine Learning in Healthcare

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  • Clinical data access is limited by privacy concerns, hindering healthcare research and development.
  • Synthetic data generation offers a privacy-preserving alternative but often lacks utility for clinical insights.
  • Existing methods prioritize data realism over the clinical utility of synthetic datasets.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce Masked Clinical Modelling (MCM), a novel framework for synthetic data generation and augmentation.
  • To evaluate MCM's effectiveness in preserving clinical utility, specifically hazard ratios in survival analysis.
  • To demonstrate MCM's potential for advancing privacy-preserving healthcare research.

Main Methods:

  • Developed the Masked Clinical Modelling (MCM) framework, inspired by masked language modelling.
  • Applied MCM for synthetic data generation and conditional data augmentation.
  • Evaluated MCM on the WHAS500 dataset using Cox Proportional Hazards models.

Main Results:

  • MCM-generated data improved discrimination and calibration in survival analysis.
  • The framework demonstrated superior performance compared to existing synthetic data methods.
  • Preservation of hazard ratios, a key clinical metric, was successfully achieved.

Conclusions:

  • Masked Clinical Modelling (MCM) offers a robust solution for generating clinically useful synthetic survival data.
  • The framework enhances the utility of synthetic datasets for survival analysis and other healthcare applications.
  • MCM shows significant potential to overcome data access barriers in medical research.