Differentially Private De-identification of Dutch Clinical Notes: A Comparative Evaluation

arXiv:2604.21421v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Protecting patient privacy in clinical narratives is essential for enabling secondary use of healthcare data under regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA. While manual de-identification remains the gold standard, it is costly and slow, motivating the need for automated methods that combine privacy guarantees with high utility. Most automated text de-identification pipelines employed named entity recognition (NER) to identify protected entities for re