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ArticleNPJ digital medicine2026

Anonymization and visualization of health data and biomarkers.

Minh H Vu, Daniel Edler, Carl Wibom, Martin Rosvall, Beatrice Melin

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Article in NPJ digital medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Authors and funding

5 authors.

Minh H VuDepartment of Diagnostics and Intervention, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. minh.vu@umu.se.
Daniel EdlerIceLab, Department of Physics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Carl WibomDepartment of Diagnostics and Intervention, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Martin RosvallIceLab, Department of Physics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Beatrice MelinDepartment of Diagnostics and Intervention, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.

Funding

Swedish Cancer Foundation 24 3406 Pj 01 HUmeå University Infrastructure FS 2.1.6-1689-24WASP-DDLS postdoctoral grant Visualization and de-Identification of Biobank Data to Propel Precision Medicine Research KAW 2023-03705
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Access to large, diverse biomedical datasets is critical for advancing medical research, yet privacy regulations severely restrict data sharing. We present an end-to-end framework for privacy-preserving health data synthesis that integrates advanced deep generative models (DGMs) with robust preprocessing, formal differential privacy (DP) training for select DGMs, empirical privacy risk evaluation, data-sufficiency analysis, domain-guided quality control, and biobank visualization tools. Released as open-source containerized software, the framework ensures reproducible deployment while preserving statistical fidelity, machine learning (ML) utility, and privacy guarantees. Empirical evaluations across diverse biobank datasets demonstrate that TabSyn-a transformer-based diffusion model-combined with our correlation-and distribution-aware CorrDst loss function achieves superior performance balancing fidelity, privacy, and computational efficiency. The tailored preprocessing pipeline effectively handles high missingness rates, substantially improving distributional accuracy and clinical plausibility. Across 26 biobank datasets spanning three regulatory levels, the framework shows that TabSyn with correlation- and distribution-aware loss function consistently achieves superior performance in terms of fidelity, privacy, and computational efficiency.

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PMID42069937
PMCPMC13135499

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