The Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) is an EU public-private partnership funding health research and innovation. By leveraging the skills of a range of scientific fields - from pharmaceuticals and biotechnology to medical technology and big data - we fund projects that will address public health needs, improve patients' lives, and boost the competitiveness of Europe's health industries.
The new SEARCH project plans to develop innovative synthetic data generation and sharing solutions for use in biomedical research.
The aim of SEARCH is to develop an innovative biomedical data generation and sharing solution as well as generalisable methodologies for generating and validating synthetic data. The project will use new models to create realistic synthetic replicas of diverse types of healthcare data, including data types that are often missing from synthetic data sets, such as wearable device data, image sequences, and genomic data. The project will also deliver a framework for assessing the anonymity and credibility of synthetic data, with the long-term goal of facilitating the use of synthetic data in regulatory and health technology assessment (HTA) settings, for example.
The project will focus on three disease areas: gastrointestinal diseases (including cancer, chronic inflammatory and rare bowel diseases); cardiovascular diseases (including atrial fibrillation and stroke); and gynaecological diseases (namely cervical cancer and ovarian cancer). The synthetic datasets generated in these areas will be used to create tools designed to help in the diagnosis and care of these diseases.
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Horizon Europe Health Cluster