An Evaluation of Pretrained Generative Models for Augmenting Small Health Data: Comparative Modeling Study

Margerie Huet-Dastarac   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Fida K Dankar   ² , PhD ;   Dan Liu   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Samer El Kababji   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Lisa Pilgram   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD ;   Khaled El Emam   ^{1, 2} , PhD

¹ School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

² Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, ON, Canada

³ Department of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany