Generating Cardiovascular Data to Improve Training of Assistive Heart Devices.

In many medical applications data is a scarce resource and can often only be obtained with invasive surgery. This is for instance the case for physiological cardiovascular data that is necessary to improve the functionality of assistive heart devices. In this work we explore the viability of a GAN architecture to generate cardiovascular data towards enriching a data set obtained in animal testing on which training of future applications can be improved which potentially reduces the need for further animal testing. We evaluate the usefulness of our synthesized data using a downstream task.