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Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/83369, first published .
Rethinking Trust in Synthetic Health Data: Lessons From 7 European Research Initiatives

Rethinking Trust in Synthetic Health Data: Lessons From 7 European Research Initiatives

Rethinking Trust in Synthetic Health Data: Lessons From 7 European Research Initiatives

Jens Declerck   1, 2 , MSc ;   Dipak Kalra   1 , Prof Dr ;   Antti Airola   3 ;   Ahmed Youssef Ali Amer   4 ;   Christos Chatzichristos   5 ;   Maria del Mar Mañu Pereira   6 ;   Bruno M. de Brito Robalo   7 ;   Francesco Ghini   8 ;   Alberto Gutierrez-Torre   9 ;   Sem Hoogteijling   10 ;   Susanne Hultsch   11 ;   Jan Ramon   12 ;   Sara Reidel   13, 14 ;   Francesco Regazzoni   15, 16 ;   Luís Silva   17 ;   Inês Silveira   17 ;   Tsekeridou Sofia   18 , PhD ;   Christophe Maes   1, 2

1 The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data, Oosterzele, Belgium

2 Unit of Medical Informatics and Statistics, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, The University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

3 Department of Computing, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

4 Innovative Medicine, Johnson & Johnson, Beerse, Belgium

5 Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

6 University Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain

7 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

8 Laboratory of Translational Research, Reggio Emilia, Italy

9 Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

10 Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands

11 VEIL.AI, Helsinki, Finland

12 Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique, Lille, France

13 Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, University Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain

14 BarcelonaTech (UPC), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

15 University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

16 Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland

17 Laboratory for Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering and Radiation Physics, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Caparica, Portugal

18 Netcompany BELUX, Athens, Greece

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