Toward mechanistic medical digital twins: some use cases in immunology

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Contributors

  • Reinhard Laubenbacher - , University of Florida College of Medicine (Author)
  • Fred Adler - , University of Utah (Author)
  • Gary An - , University of Vermont (Author)
  • Filippo Castiglione - , Technology Innovation Institute (TII) (Author)
  • Stephen Eubank - , University of Virginia (Author)
  • Luis L Fonseca - , University of Florida College of Medicine (Author)
  • James Glazier - , Indiana University Bloomington (Author)
  • Tomas Helikar - , University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Author)
  • Marti Jett-Tilton - , Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (Author)
  • Denise Kirschner - , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Author)
  • Paul Macklin - , Indiana University Bloomington (Author)
  • Borna Mehrad - , University of Florida College of Medicine (Author)
  • Beth Moore - , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Author)
  • Virginia Pasour - , United States Army Research Office (Author)
  • Ilya Shmulevich - , Institute for Systems Biology (Author)
  • Amber Smith - , University of Tennessee Health Science Center (Author)
  • Isabel Voigt - , Department of Neurology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden (Author)
  • Thomas E Yankeelov - , University of Texas at Austin (Author)
  • Tjalf Ziemssen - , Department of Neurology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden (Author)

Abstract

A fundamental challenge for personalized medicine is to capture enough of the complexity of an individual patient to determine an optimal way to keep them healthy or restore their health. This will require personalized computational models of sufficient resolution and with enough mechanistic information to provide actionable information to the clinician. Such personalized models are increasingly referred to as medical digital twins. Digital twin technology for health applications is still in its infancy, and extensive research and development is required. This article focuses on several projects in different stages of development that can lead to specific-and practical-medical digital twins or digital twin modeling platforms. It emerged from a two-day forum on problems related to medical digital twins, particularly those involving an immune system component. Open access video recordings of the forum discussions are available.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number1349595
Pages (from-to)1349595
JournalFrontiers in Digital Health
Volume6
Publication statusPublished - 7 Mar 2024
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

PubMedCentral PMC10955144
Scopus 85188257838
ORCID /0000-0003-0097-8589/work/156337650
ORCID /0000-0001-8799-8202/work/171553651

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