A quarter-century of synthetic data in healthcare: Unveiling trends with structural topic modeling.

Summary: Scientists looked at over 7,500 health studies from the last 25 years that used "made-up" or synthetic data. They found that the number of these studies has grown 20 times larger! In the past, most of this research came from North America and Europe, but now Asia is producing a lot more. Early on, researchers focused mostly on math and fixing missing information. Now, they are using synthetic data to create models of diseases and improve public health. To keep making progress, doctors and computer scientists around the world need to work together and make sure their data is fair.