Synthetic Data in Healthcare
Synthetic data are becoming a critical tool for building artificially intelligent systems. Simulators provide a way of generating data systematically and at scale. These data can then be used either exclusively, or in conjunction with real data, for training and testing systems. Synthetic data are particularly attractive in cases where the availability of ``real'' training examples might be a bottleneck. While the volume of data in healthcare is growing exponentially, creating datasets for novel tasks and/or that reflect a diverse set of conditions and causal relationships is not trivial. Furthermore, these data are highly sensitive and often patient specific. Recent research has begun to illustrate the potential for synthetic data in many areas of medicine, but no systematic review of the literature exists. In this paper, we present the cases for physical and statistical simulations for creating data and the proposed applications in healthcare and medicine. We discuss that while synthetics can promote privacy, equity, safety and continual and causal learning, they also run the risk of introducing flaws, blind spots and propagating or exaggerating biases.
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