Digital twin in healthcare: Recent updates and challenges
Dalian Medical University · First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University · +1 more institution
Abstract
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…
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- 68.02
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- 100%
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3Topics & keywords
- Scopus
- Health care
- Precision medicine
- Web of science
- MEDLINE
- Evidence-based medicine
- Data science
- Computer science