Digital twin in healthcare: Recent updates and challenges
As simulation is playing an increasingly important role in medicine, providing the individual patient with a customised diagnosis and treatment is envisaged as part of future precision medicine. Such customisation will become possible through the emergence of digital twin (DT) technology. The object...
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| description | As simulation is playing an increasingly important role in medicine, providing the individual patient with a customised diagnosis and treatment is envisaged as part of future precision medicine. Such customisation will become possible through the emergence of digital twin (DT) technology. The objective of this article is to review the progress of prominent research on DT technology in medicine and discuss the potential applications and future opportunities as well as several challenges remaining in digital healthcare. A review of the literature was conducted using PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Scopus and related bibliographic resources, in which the following terms and their derivatives were considered during the search: DT, medicine and digital health virtual healthcare. Finally, analyses of the literature yielded 465 pertinent articles, of which we selected 22 for detailed review. We summarised the application examples of DT in medicine and analysed the applications in many fields of medicine. It revealed encouraging results that DT is being increasing applied in medicine. Results from this literature review indicated that DT healthcare, as a key fusion approach of future medicine, will bring the advantages of precision diagnose and personalised treatment into reality. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b99e6297763b40f69ed6dc5661d349ba2023-01-04T14:03:19ZengSAGE PublishingDigital Health2055-20762023-01-01910.1177/20552076221149651Digital twin in healthcare: Recent updates and challengesTianze Sun0Xiwang He1Zhonghai Li2 Key Laboratory of Molecular Mechanism for Repair and Remodeling of Orthopedic Diseases, Dalian, People's Republic of China School of Mechanical Engineering, , Dalian, People's Republic of China Key Laboratory of Molecular Mechanism for Repair and Remodeling of Orthopedic Diseases, Dalian, People's Republic of ChinaAs simulation is playing an increasingly important role in medicine, providing the individual patient with a customised diagnosis and treatment is envisaged as part of future precision medicine. Such customisation will become possible through the emergence of digital twin (DT) technology. The objective of this article is to review the progress of prominent research on DT technology in medicine and discuss the potential applications and future opportunities as well as several challenges remaining in digital healthcare. A review of the literature was conducted using PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Scopus and related bibliographic resources, in which the following terms and their derivatives were considered during the search: DT, medicine and digital health virtual healthcare. Finally, analyses of the literature yielded 465 pertinent articles, of which we selected 22 for detailed review. We summarised the application examples of DT in medicine and analysed the applications in many fields of medicine. It revealed encouraging results that DT is being increasing applied in medicine. Results from this literature review indicated that DT healthcare, as a key fusion approach of future medicine, will bring the advantages of precision diagnose and personalised treatment into reality.https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076221149651 |
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| title | Digital twin in healthcare: Recent updates and challenges |
| title_full | Digital twin in healthcare: Recent updates and challenges |
| title_fullStr | Digital twin in healthcare: Recent updates and challenges |
| title_full_unstemmed | Digital twin in healthcare: Recent updates and challenges |
| title_short | Digital twin in healthcare: Recent updates and challenges |
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| url | https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076221149651 |
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