Generating Synthetic Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data: A Review with Benchmarking

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04281v1
• Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 21:59:19 GMT
• Title: Generating Synthetic Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data: A Review with Benchmarking
• Authors: Xingran Chen, Zhenke Wu, Xu Shi, Hyunghoon Cho, Bhramar Mukherjee,
• Abstract summary: Methods are benchmarked on open-source EHR datasets, MIMIC-III/IV. We provide a decision tree to guide the choice among the benchmarked methods. GAN-based methods excel when distributional shifts exist between the training and testing populations.
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• Abstract: 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 scoping review. Methods are benchmarked on open-source EHR datasets, MIMIC-III/IV. Seven existing methods covering major categories and two baseline methods are implemented and compared. Evaluation metrics concern data fidelity, downstream utility, privacy protection, and computational cost. 42 studies are identified and classified into five categories. Seven open-source methods covering all categories are selected, trained on MIMIC-III, and evaluated on MIMIC-III or MIMIC-IV for transportability considerations. Among them, GAN-based methods demonstrate competitive performance in fidelity and utility on MIMIC-III; rule-based methods excel in privacy protection. Similar findings are observed on MIMIC-IV, except that GAN-based methods further outperform the baseline methods in preserving fidelity. A Python package, ``SynthEHRella'', is provided to integrate various choices of approaches and evaluation metrics, enabling more streamlined exploration and evaluation of multiple methods. We found that method choice is governed by the relative importance of the evaluation metrics in downstream use cases. We provide a decision tree to guide the choice among the benchmarked methods. Based on the decision tree, GAN-based methods excel when distributional shifts exist between the training and testing populations. Otherwise, CorGAN and MedGAN are most suitable for association modeling and predictive modeling, respectively. Future research should prioritize enhancing fidelity of the synthetic data while controlling privacy exposure, and comprehensive benchmarking of longitudinal or conditional generation methods.

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