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Real or fake? The buzz about synthetic data
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:29:25
Publish Date: 2022-01-18 20:54:12
Description:

Dr. Khaled El Emam is a Canada Research Chair in Medical Artificial Intelligence and a professor in the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine. He is a co-founder of Replica Analytics.

  • Developing privacy enhancing technologies to enable access to health data to support research [3:46]
  • What is synthetic data? [5:36]
  • Anonymous versions of real clinical data sets [8:36]
  • Testing synthetic data to determine privacy risks [9:02]
  • Examples of real world use cases in Canada [10:06]
  • Re-identification attacks and loss of trust in traditional methods [12:31]
  • Comparing statistical properties of synthetic data to the real thing [14:15]
  • Is synthetic data really just like the real thing? [14:21]
  • How synthetic data is made using artificial intelligence technologies [15:05]
  • Use of synthetic data for research is expected to accelerate, increasing the need for practical regulatory guidance [16:47]
  • Reducing uncertainty to fuel innovation [19:30]
  • The need for clear rules around consent and thresholds for identifiable versus unidentifiable data [23:13]

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