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Sandrone S. Digital Twins in Neuroscience. J Neurosci 2024; 44:e0932242024. [PMID: 39084938 PMCID: PMC11293441 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0932-24.2024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2024] [Accepted: 05/16/2024] [Indexed: 08/02/2024] Open
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- Stefano Sandrone
- Department of Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United Kingdom
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Wasilewski T, Kamysz W, Gębicki J. AI-Assisted Detection of Biomarkers by Sensors and Biosensors for Early Diagnosis and Monitoring. BIOSENSORS 2024; 14:356. [PMID: 39056632 PMCID: PMC11274923 DOI: 10.3390/bios14070356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2024] [Revised: 06/25/2024] [Accepted: 06/28/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024]
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The steady progress in consumer electronics, together with improvement in microflow techniques, nanotechnology, and data processing, has led to implementation of cost-effective, user-friendly portable devices, which play the role of not only gadgets but also diagnostic tools. Moreover, numerous smart devices monitor patients' health, and some of them are applied in point-of-care (PoC) tests as a reliable source of evaluation of a patient's condition. Current diagnostic practices are still based on laboratory tests, preceded by the collection of biological samples, which are then tested in clinical conditions by trained personnel with specialistic equipment. In practice, collecting passive/active physiological and behavioral data from patients in real time and feeding them to artificial intelligence (AI) models can significantly improve the decision process regarding diagnosis and treatment procedures via the omission of conventional sampling and diagnostic procedures while also excluding the role of pathologists. A combination of conventional and novel methods of digital and traditional biomarker detection with portable, autonomous, and miniaturized devices can revolutionize medical diagnostics in the coming years. This article focuses on a comparison of traditional clinical practices with modern diagnostic techniques based on AI and machine learning (ML). The presented technologies will bypass laboratories and start being commercialized, which should lead to improvement or substitution of current diagnostic tools. Their application in PoC settings or as a consumer technology accessible to every patient appears to be a real possibility. Research in this field is expected to intensify in the coming years. Technological advancements in sensors and biosensors are anticipated to enable the continuous real-time analysis of various omics fields, fostering early disease detection and intervention strategies. The integration of AI with digital health platforms would enable predictive analysis and personalized healthcare, emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in related scientific fields.
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- Tomasz Wasilewski
- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Gdansk, Hallera 107, 80-416 Gdansk, Poland
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Gdansk, Hallera 107, 80-416 Gdansk, Poland
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- Department of Process Engineering and Chemical Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Gdansk University of Technology, Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland;
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Fonseca LL, Böttcher L, Mehrad B, Laubenbacher RC. Surrogate modeling and control of medical digital twins. ARXIV 2024:arXiv:2402.05750v2. [PMID: 38827450 PMCID: PMC11142319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2024]
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The vision of personalized medicine is to identify interventions that maintain or restore a person's health based on their individual biology. Medical digital twins, computational models that integrate a wide range of health-related data about a person and can be dynamically updated, are a key technology that can help guide medical decisions. Such medical digital twin models can be high-dimensional, multi-scale, and stochastic. To be practical for healthcare applications, they often need to be simplified into low-dimensional surrogate models that can be used for optimal design of interventions. This paper introduces surrogate modeling algorithms for the purpose of optimal control applications. As a use case, we focus on agent-based models (ABMs), a common model type in biomedicine for which there are no readily available optimal control algorithms. By deriving surrogate models that are based on systems of ordinary differential equations, we show how optimal control methods can be employed to compute effective interventions, which can then be lifted back to a given ABM. The relevance of the methods introduced here extends beyond medical digital twins to other complex dynamical systems.
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- Luis L. Fonseca
- Laboratory for Systems Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Laboratory for Systems Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Department of Computational Science and Philosophy, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Laboratory for Systems Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Laboratory for Systems Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Peirce-Cottler SM, Sander EA, Fisher MB, Deymier AC, LaDisa JF, O'Connell G, Corr DT, Han B, Singh A, Wilson SE, Lai VK, Clyne AM. A Systems Approach to Biomechanics, Mechanobiology, and Biotransport. J Biomech Eng 2024; 146:040801. [PMID: 38270930 DOI: 10.1115/1.4064547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2023] [Accepted: 12/27/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
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The human body represents a collection of interacting systems that range in scale from nanometers to meters. Investigations from a systems perspective focus on how the parts work together to enact changes across spatial scales, and further our understanding of how systems function and fail. Here, we highlight systems approaches presented at the 2022 Summer Biomechanics, Bio-engineering, and Biotransport Conference in the areas of solid mechanics; fluid mechanics; tissue and cellular engineering; biotransport; and design, dynamics, and rehabilitation; and biomechanics education. Systems approaches are yielding new insights into human biology by leveraging state-of-the-art tools, which could ultimately lead to more informed design of therapies and medical devices for preventing and treating disease as well as rehabilitating patients using strategies that are uniquely optimized for each patient. Educational approaches can also be designed to foster a foundation of systems-level thinking.
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- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, 5629 Seamans Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242; Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
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- Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695; Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, CT 06032
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Wauwatosa, WI 53226; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology Herma Heart Institute, Children's Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California-Berkeley, 6141 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Modeling, Simulation, & Imaging in Medicine, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 7042 Jonsson Engineering Center 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 585 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN 47907; Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907; Center for Cancer Research, Purdue University, 585 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN 47907
- Purdue University West Lafayette
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- Bioengineering Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kansas, 1530 W 15th Street, Lawrence, KS 66045
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN 55812
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- Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, 8278 Paint Branch Drive, College Park, MD 20742
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Böttcher L, Fonseca LL, Laubenbacher RC. Control of Medical Digital Twins with Artificial Neural Networks. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.03.18.585589. [PMID: 38562787 PMCID: PMC10983973 DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.18.585589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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The objective of personalized medicine is to tailor interventions to an individual patient's unique characteristics. A key technology for this purpose involves medical digital twins, computational models of human biology that can be personalized and dynamically updated to incorporate patient-specific data collected over time. Certain aspects of human biology, such as the immune system, are not easily captured with physics-based models, such as differential equations. Instead, they are often multi-scale, stochastic, and hybrid. This poses a challenge to existing model-based control and optimization approaches that cannot be readily applied to such models. Recent advances in automatic differentiation and neural-network control methods hold promise in addressing complex control problems. However, the application of these approaches to biomedical systems is still in its early stages. This work introduces dynamics-informed neural-network controllers as an alternative approach to control of medical digital twins. As a first use case for this method, the focus is on agent-based models, a versatile and increasingly common modeling platform in biomedicine. The effectiveness of the proposed neural-network control method is illustrated and benchmarked against other methods with two widely-used agent-based model types. The relevance of the method introduced here extends beyond medical digital twins to other complex dynamical systems.
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Laubenbacher R, Mehrad B, Shmulevich I, Trayanova N. Digital twins in medicine. NATURE COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE 2024; 4:184-191. [PMID: 38532133 PMCID: PMC11102043 DOI: 10.1038/s43588-024-00607-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2023] [Accepted: 02/12/2024] [Indexed: 03/28/2024]
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Medical digital twins, which are potentially vital for personalized medicine, have become a recent focus in medical research. Here we present an overview of the state of the art in medical digital twin development, especially in oncology and cardiology, where it is most advanced. We discuss major challenges, such as data integration and privacy, and provide an outlook on future advancements. Emphasizing the importance of this technology in healthcare, we highlight the potential for substantial improvements in patient-specific treatments and diagnostics.
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- R Laubenbacher
- Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
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- Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Fernandez R, Le Cunff L, Mérigeaud S, Verdeil JL, Perry J, Larignon P, Spilmont AS, Chatelet P, Cardoso M, Goze-Bac C, Moisy C. End-to-end multimodal 3D imaging and machine learning workflow for non-destructive phenotyping of grapevine trunk internal structure. Sci Rep 2024; 14:5033. [PMID: 38424155 PMCID: PMC10904756 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-55186-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2023] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024] Open
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Quantifying healthy and degraded inner tissues in plants is of great interest in agronomy, for example, to assess plant health and quality and monitor physiological traits or diseases. However, detecting functional and degraded plant tissues in-vivo without harming the plant is extremely challenging. New solutions are needed in ligneous and perennial species, for which the sustainability of plantations is crucial. To tackle this challenge, we developed a novel approach based on multimodal 3D imaging and artificial intelligence-based image processing that allowed a non-destructive diagnosis of inner tissues in living plants. The method was successfully applied to the grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.). Vineyard's sustainability is threatened by trunk diseases, while the sanitary status of vines cannot be ascertained without injuring the plants. By combining MRI and X-ray CT 3D imaging with an automatic voxel classification, we could discriminate intact, degraded, and white rot tissues with a mean global accuracy of over 91%. Each imaging modality contribution to tissue detection was evaluated, and we identified quantitative structural and physiological markers characterizing wood degradation steps. The combined study of inner tissue distribution versus external foliar symptom history demonstrated that white rot and intact tissue contents are key-measurements in evaluating vines' sanitary status. We finally proposed a model for an accurate trunk disease diagnosis in grapevine. This work opens new routes for precision agriculture and in-situ monitoring of tissue quality and plant health across plant species.
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- Romain Fernandez
- IFV, French Institute of Vine and Wine, IFV, INRAE, UMT Géno-Vigne, Institut Agro, 34398, Montpellier, France
- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, 34398, Montpellier, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- IFV, French Institute of Vine and Wine, IFV, INRAE, UMT Géno-Vigne, Institut Agro, 34398, Montpellier, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- CIRAD, Phiv, Campus Lavalette, 389 Avenue Agropolis, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- CIVC Comité Champagne, 5 Rue Henri Martin, 51200, Epernay, France
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- IFV Nîmes. Pôle Rhône-Méditerranée, 7 Avenue Cazeaux, 30230, Rodilhan, France
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- IFV Pôle Matériel Végétal, Domaine de l'Espiguette, 30240, Le Grau du Roi, France
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- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- BNIF University of Montpellier, Place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier, France
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- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, University of Montpellier and CNRS, 34095, Montpellier, France
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- IFV, French Institute of Vine and Wine, IFV, INRAE, UMT Géno-Vigne, Institut Agro, 34398, Montpellier, France.
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France.
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Joslyn LR, Huang W, Miles D, Hosseini I, Ramanujan S. "Digital twins elucidate critical role of T scm in clinical persistence of TCR-engineered cell therapy". NPJ Syst Biol Appl 2024; 10:11. [PMID: 38278838 PMCID: PMC10817974 DOI: 10.1038/s41540-024-00335-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2023] [Accepted: 01/11/2024] [Indexed: 01/28/2024] Open
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Despite recent progress in adoptive T cell therapy for cancer, understanding and predicting the kinetics of infused T cells remains a challenge. Multiple factors can impact the distribution, expansion, and decay or persistence of infused T cells in patients. We have developed a novel quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) model of TCR-transgenic T cell therapy in patients with solid tumors to describe the kinetics of endogenous T cells and multiple memory subsets of engineered T cells after infusion. These T cells undergo lymphodepletion, proliferation, trafficking, differentiation, and apoptosis in blood, lymph nodes, tumor site, and other peripheral tissues. Using the model, we generated patient-matched digital twins that recapitulate the circulating T cell kinetics reported from a clinical trial of TCR-engineered T cells targeting E7 in patients with metastatic HPV-associated epithelial cancers. Analyses of key parameters influencing cell kinetics and differences among digital twins identify stem cell-like memory T cells (Tscm) cells as an important determinant of both expansion and persistence and suggest that Tscm-related differences contribute significantly to the observed variability in cellular kinetics among patients. We simulated in silico clinical trials using digital twins and predict that Tscm enrichment in the infused product improves persistence of the engineered T cells and could enable administration of a lower dose. Finally, we verified the broader relevance of the QSP model, the digital twins, and findings on the importance of Tscm enrichment by predicting kinetics for two patients with pancreatic cancer treated with KRAS G12D targeting T cell therapy. This work offers insight into the key role of Tscm biology on T cell kinetics and provides a quantitative framework to evaluate cellular kinetics for future efforts in the development and clinical application of TCR-engineered T cell therapies.
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- Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA
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Venkatesh KP, Brito G, Kamel Boulos MN. Health Digital Twins in Life Science and Health Care Innovation. Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol 2024; 64:159-170. [PMID: 37562495 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-pharmtox-022123-022046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/12/2023]
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Health digital twins (HDTs) are virtual representations of real individuals that can be used to simulate human physiology, disease, and drug effects. HDTs can be used to improve drug discovery and development by providing a data-driven approach to inform target selection, drug delivery, and design of clinical trials. HDTs also offer new applications into precision therapies and clinical decision making. The deployment of HDTs at scale could bring a precision approach to public health monitoring and intervention. Next steps include challenges such as addressing socioeconomic barriers and ensuring the representativeness of the technology based on the training and validation data sets. Governance and regulation of HDT technology are still in the early stages.
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Gholipour S, Shamsizadeh Z, Halabowski D, Gwenzi W, Nikaeen M. Combating antibiotic resistance using wastewater surveillance: Significance, applications, challenges, and future directions. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 908:168056. [PMID: 37914125 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2023] [Revised: 10/19/2023] [Accepted: 10/21/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023]
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The global increase of antibiotic resistance (AR) and resistant infections call for effective surveillance methods for understanding and mitigating (re)-emerging public health risks. Wastewater surveillance (WS) of antibiotic resistance is an emerging, but currently under-utilized decision-support tool in public health systems. Recent years have witnessed an increase in evidence linking antibiotic resistance in wastewaters to that of the community. To date, very few comprehensive reviews exist on the application of WS to understand AR and resistant infections in population. Current and emerging AR detection methods, and their merits and limitations are discussed. Wastewater surveillance has several merits relative to individual testing, including; (1) low per capita testing cost, (2) high spatial coverage, (3) low requirement for diagnostic equipment, and (4) detection of health threats ahead of real outbreaks. The applications of WS as an early warning system and decision support tool to understand and mitigate AR are discussed. Wastewater surveillance could be a tool of choice in low-income settings lacking resources and diagnostic facilities for individual testing. To demonstrate the utility of WS, empirical evidence from field case studies is presented. However, constraints still exist, including; (1) lack of standardized protocols, (2) the clinical utility and sensitivity of WS-based data, (3) uncertainties in relating WS data to pathogenic and virulent bacteria, and (4) whether or not AR in stools and ultimately wastewater represent the complete human resistome. Finally, further prospects are presented, include knowledge gaps on; (1) development of low-cost biosensors for AR, (2) development of WS protocols (sampling, processing, interpretation), (3) further pilot scale studies to understand the opportunities and limits of WS, and (4) development of computer-based analytical tools to facilitate rapid data collection, visualization and interpretation. Therefore, the present paper discusses the principles, opportunities, and constraints of wastewater surveillance applications to understand AR and safeguard public health.
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- Sahar Gholipour
- Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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- Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Larestan University of Medical Sciences, Larestan, Iran
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- University of Lodz, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, Lodz, Poland
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- Universität Kassel, Fachbereich Ökologische Agrarwissenschaften Fachgebiet Grünlandwissenschaft und Nachwachsende Rohstoffe, Steinstr. 19, 37249 Witzenhausen, Germany; Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik und Bioökonomie e.V. Max-Eyth-Allee 100, D-14469 Potsdam, Germany.
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- Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; Environment Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
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Velleuer E, Domínguez-Hüttinger E, Rodríguez A, Harris LA, Carlberg C. Concepts of multi-level dynamical modelling: understanding mechanisms of squamous cell carcinoma development in Fanconi anemia. Front Genet 2023; 14:1254966. [PMID: 38028610 PMCID: PMC10652399 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1254966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2023] [Accepted: 10/18/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
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Fanconi anemia (FA) is a rare disease (incidence of 1:300,000) primarily based on the inheritance of pathogenic variants in genes of the FA/BRCA (breast cancer) pathway. These variants ultimately reduce the functionality of different proteins involved in the repair of DNA interstrand crosslinks and DNA double-strand breaks. At birth, individuals with FA might present with typical malformations, particularly radial axis and renal malformations, as well as other physical abnormalities like skin pigmentation anomalies. During the first decade of life, FA mostly causes bone marrow failure due to reduced capacity and loss of the hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. This often makes hematopoietic stem cell transplantation necessary, but this therapy increases the already intrinsic risk of developing squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in early adult age. Due to the underlying genetic defect in FA, classical chemo-radiation-based treatment protocols cannot be applied. Therefore, detecting and treating the multi-step tumorigenesis process of SCC in an early stage, or even its progenitors, is the best option for prolonging the life of adult FA individuals. However, the small number of FA individuals makes classical evidence-based medicine approaches based on results from randomized clinical trials impossible. As an alternative, we introduce here the concept of multi-level dynamical modelling using large, longitudinally collected genome, proteome- and transcriptome-wide data sets from a small number of FA individuals. This mechanistic modelling approach is based on the "hallmarks of cancer in FA", which we derive from our unique database of the clinical history of over 750 FA individuals. Multi-omic data from healthy and diseased tissue samples of FA individuals are to be used for training constituent models of a multi-level tumorigenesis model, which will then be used to make experimentally testable predictions. In this way, mechanistic models facilitate not only a descriptive but also a functional understanding of SCC in FA. This approach will provide the basis for detecting signatures of SCCs at early stages and their precursors so they can be efficiently treated or even prevented, leading to a better prognosis and quality of life for the FA individual.
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- Eunike Velleuer
- Department of Cytopathology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Center for Child and Adolescent Health, Helios Klinikum, Krefeld, Germany
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- Departamento Düsseldorf Biología Molecular y Biotecnología, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad México, Mexico
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- Departamento de Medicina Genómica y Toxicología Ambiental, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad México, Mexico
- Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Ciudad México, Mexico
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
- Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
- Cancer Biology Program, Winthrop P Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, United States
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- Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Olsztyn, Poland
- School of Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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Hong GS, Jang M, Kyung S, Cho K, Jeong J, Lee GY, Shin K, Kim KD, Ryu SM, Seo JB, Lee SM, Kim N. Overcoming the Challenges in the Development and Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Radiology: A Comprehensive Review of Solutions Beyond Supervised Learning. Korean J Radiol 2023; 24:1061-1080. [PMID: 37724586 PMCID: PMC10613849 DOI: 10.3348/kjr.2023.0393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2023] [Revised: 07/01/2023] [Accepted: 07/30/2023] [Indexed: 09/21/2023] Open
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Artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology is a rapidly developing field with several prospective clinical studies demonstrating its benefits in clinical practice. In 2022, the Korean Society of Radiology held a forum to discuss the challenges and drawbacks in AI development and implementation. Various barriers hinder the successful application and widespread adoption of AI in radiology, such as limited annotated data, data privacy and security, data heterogeneity, imbalanced data, model interpretability, overfitting, and integration with clinical workflows. In this review, some of the various possible solutions to these challenges are presented and discussed; these include training with longitudinal and multimodal datasets, dense training with multitask learning and multimodal learning, self-supervised contrastive learning, various image modifications and syntheses using generative models, explainable AI, causal learning, federated learning with large data models, and digital twins.
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- Gil-Sun Hong
- Department of Radiology and Research Institute of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Convergence Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Asan Medical Institute of Convergence Science and Technology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Convergence Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Asan Medical Institute of Convergence Science and Technology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Convergence Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Convergence Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Laboratory for Biosignal Analysis and Perioperative Outcome Research, Biomedical Engineering Center, Asan Institute of Lifesciences, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Convergence Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiology and Research Institute of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiology and Research Institute of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Radiology and Research Institute of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Department of Convergence Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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Chaudhuri A, Pash G, Hormuth DA, Lorenzo G, Kapteyn M, Wu C, Lima EABF, Yankeelov TE, Willcox K. Predictive digital twin for optimizing patient-specific radiotherapy regimens under uncertainty in high-grade gliomas. Front Artif Intell 2023; 6:1222612. [PMID: 37886348 PMCID: PMC10598726 DOI: 10.3389/frai.2023.1222612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2023] [Accepted: 09/07/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023] Open
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We develop a methodology to create data-driven predictive digital twins for optimal risk-aware clinical decision-making. We illustrate the methodology as an enabler for an anticipatory personalized treatment that accounts for uncertainties in the underlying tumor biology in high-grade gliomas, where heterogeneity in the response to standard-of-care (SOC) radiotherapy contributes to sub-optimal patient outcomes. The digital twin is initialized through prior distributions derived from population-level clinical data in the literature for a mechanistic model's parameters. Then the digital twin is personalized using Bayesian model calibration for assimilating patient-specific magnetic resonance imaging data. The calibrated digital twin is used to propose optimal radiotherapy treatment regimens by solving a multi-objective risk-based optimization under uncertainty problem. The solution leads to a suite of patient-specific optimal radiotherapy treatment regimens exhibiting varying levels of trade-off between the two competing clinical objectives: (i) maximizing tumor control (characterized by minimizing the risk of tumor volume growth) and (ii) minimizing the toxicity from radiotherapy. The proposed digital twin framework is illustrated by generating an in silico cohort of 100 patients with high-grade glioma growth and response properties typically observed in the literature. For the same total radiation dose as the SOC, the personalized treatment regimens lead to median increase in tumor time to progression of around six days. Alternatively, for the same level of tumor control as the SOC, the digital twin provides optimal treatment options that lead to a median reduction in radiation dose by 16.7% (10 Gy) compared to SOC total dose of 60 Gy. The range of optimal solutions also provide options with increased doses for patients with aggressive cancer, where SOC does not lead to sufficient tumor control.
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- Anirban Chaudhuri
- Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
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- Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
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- Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
- Livestrong Cancer Institutes, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
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- Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
- Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
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- Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
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- Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
- Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
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- Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
- Livestrong Cancer Institutes, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
- Department of Diagnostic Medicine, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
- Department of Oncology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
- Department of Imaging Physics, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States
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- Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
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De Benedictis A, Mazzocca N, Somma A, Strigaro C. Digital Twins in Healthcare: An Architectural Proposal and Its Application in a Social Distancing Case Study. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2023; 27:5143-5154. [PMID: 36083955 DOI: 10.1109/jbhi.2022.3205506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The digital transformation process fostered by the development of Industry 4.0 technologies has largely affected the health sector, increasing diagnostic capabilities and improving drug effectiveness and treatment delivery. The Digital Twin (DT) technology, based on the virtualization of physical assets/processes and on a bidirectional communication between the digital and physical space for data exchange, is considered a game changer in modern health systems. Digital Twin applications in healthcare are various, ranging from virtualization of hospitals' physical spaces/organizational processes to individuals' physiological/genetic/lifestyle characteristics replication, and include the modeling of public health-related processes for monitoring, optimization and planning purposes. In this paper, motivated by the current COVID-19 pandemic, we focus on the application of the Digital Twin technology for virus containment on the workplace through social distancing. The contribution of this paper is three-fold: i) we review the existing literature on the adoption of the Digital Twin technology in the healthcare domain, and propose a classification of DT applications into four categories; ii) we propose a generalized Digital Twin architecture that can be used as reference to identify the main functional components of a Digital Twin system; iii) we present CanTwin, a real-life industrial case study developed by Hitachi and representing the Digital Twin of a canteen service serving 1100 workers, set up for social distancing monitoring, queue inspection, people counting and tracking, table occupancy supervision.
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Hu Y, Zhao Y, Dai N, Lu H, Ge J. Unwavering excellence: How to be a competent cardiovascular doctor in "panvascular medicine +". Innovation (N Y) 2023; 4:100489. [PMID: 37636277 PMCID: PMC10448321 DOI: 10.1016/j.xinn.2023.100489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 08/29/2023] Open
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It is essential to create a sustainable and all-encompassing panvascular ecosystem that integrates medical care, industry-academia research, prevention, and management, necessitating the in-depth participation of every cardiovascular doctor on their journey of unwavering excellence. "From doctors, by researchers/engineers, for patients" is the foundation of sustainable development in the "panvascular medicine +" ecosystem. Medical education can make knowledge tangible and serve as a conduit for inheritance and innovation. Prevention covers intelligent decision-making, primary prevention, and the popularization of knowledge. Furthermore, management is a potent tool for promoting development through overall coordination with social governance. Thus, in the "panvascular medicine +" ecosystem, cardiovascular doctors need to prioritize the doctor-patient collaboration, serving patients while possessing capabilities in scientific research, engineering applications, education, prevention, and management. This enables them to promote comprehensive and lifelong health management for patients.
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- Yiqing Hu
- Department of Cardiology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Shanghai 200032, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Shanghai 200032, China
- Department of Cardiology, Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi 563000, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Shanghai 200032, China
- National Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine, Shanghai 200032, China
- Shanghai Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine, Shanghai 200032, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Shanghai 200032, China
- National Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine, Shanghai 200032, China
- Shanghai Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine, Shanghai 200032, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Shanghai 200032, China
- National Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine, Shanghai 200032, China
- Shanghai Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine, Shanghai 200032, China
- Key Laboratory of Viral Heart Diseases, National Health Commission, Shanghai 200032, China
- Key Laboratory of Viral Heart Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
- Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
- Department of Cardiology, Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi 563000, China
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Niazi SK. The Coming of Age of AI/ML in Drug Discovery, Development, Clinical Testing, and Manufacturing: The FDA Perspectives. Drug Des Devel Ther 2023; 17:2691-2725. [PMID: 37701048 PMCID: PMC10493153 DOI: 10.2147/dddt.s424991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2023] [Accepted: 08/24/2023] [Indexed: 09/14/2023] Open
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) represent significant advancements in computing, building on technologies that humanity has developed over millions of years-from the abacus to quantum computers. These tools have reached a pivotal moment in their development. In 2021 alone, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received over 100 product registration submissions that heavily relied on AI/ML for applications such as monitoring and improving human performance in compiling dossiers. To ensure the safe and effective use of AI/ML in drug discovery and manufacturing, the FDA and numerous other U.S. federal agencies have issued continuously updated, stringent guidelines. Intriguingly, these guidelines are often generated or updated with the aid of AI/ML tools themselves. The overarching goal is to expedite drug discovery, enhance the safety profiles of existing drugs, introduce novel treatment modalities, and improve manufacturing compliance and robustness. Recent FDA publications offer an encouraging outlook on the potential of these tools, emphasizing the need for their careful deployment. This has expanded market opportunities for retraining personnel handling these technologies and enabled innovative applications in emerging therapies such as gene editing, CRISPR-Cas9, CAR-T cells, mRNA-based treatments, and personalized medicine. In summary, the maturation of AI/ML technologies is a testament to human ingenuity. Far from being autonomous entities, these are tools created by and for humans designed to solve complex problems now and in the future. This paper aims to present the status of these technologies, along with examples of their present and future applications.
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McMahon‑Cole H, Johnson A, Sadat Aghamiri S, Helikar T, Crawford LB. Modeling and Remodeling the Cell: How Digital Twins and HCMV Can Elucidate the Complex Interactions of Viral Latency, Epigenetic Regulation, and Immune Responses. CURRENT CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS 2023; 10:141-151. [PMID: 37901689 PMCID: PMC10601359 DOI: 10.1007/s40588-023-00201-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/31/2023]
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Purpose of Review Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), while asymptomatic in most, causes significant complications during fetal development, following transplant or in immunosuppressed individuals. The host-virus interactions regulating viral latency and reactivation and viral control of the cellular environment (immune regulation, differentiation, epigenetics) are highly complex. Understanding these processes is essential to controlling infection and can be leveraged as a novel approach for understanding basic cell biology. Recent Findings Immune digital twins (IDTs) are digital simulations integrating knowledge of human immunology, physiology, and patient-specific clinical data to predict individualized immune responses and targeted treatments. Recent studies used IDTs to elucidate mechanisms of T cells, dendritic cells, and epigenetic control-all key to HCMV biology. Summary Here, we discuss how leveraging the unique biology of HCMV and IDTs will clarify immune response dynamics, host-virus interactions, and viral latency and reactivation and serve as a powerful IDT-validation platform for individualized and holistic health management.
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- Hana McMahon‑Cole
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
- Nebraska Center for Virology, Lincoln, NE, USA
- Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication, Lincoln, NE, USA
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Sigawi T, Ilan Y. Using Constrained-Disorder Principle-Based Systems to Improve the Performance of Digital Twins in Biological Systems. Biomimetics (Basel) 2023; 8:359. [PMID: 37622964 PMCID: PMC10452845 DOI: 10.3390/biomimetics8040359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2023] [Revised: 08/04/2023] [Accepted: 08/07/2023] [Indexed: 08/26/2023] Open
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Digital twins are computer programs that use real-world data to create simulations that predict the performance of processes, products, and systems. Digital twins may integrate artificial intelligence to improve their outputs. Models for dealing with uncertainties and noise are used to improve the accuracy of digital twins. Most currently used systems aim to reduce noise to improve their outputs. Nevertheless, biological systems are characterized by inherent variability, which is necessary for their proper function. The constrained-disorder principle defines living systems as having a disorder as part of their existence and proper operation while kept within dynamic boundaries. In the present paper, we review the role of noise in complex systems and its use in bioengineering. We describe the use of digital twins for medical applications and current methods for dealing with noise and uncertainties in modeling. The paper presents methods to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of digital twin systems by continuously implementing variability signatures while simultaneously reducing unwanted noise in their inputs and outputs. Accounting for the noisy internal and external environments of complex biological systems is necessary for the future design of improved, more accurate digital twins.
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- Department of Medicine, Hadassah Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem P.O. Box 12000, Israel;
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Selvarajoo K, Giuliani A. Systems Biology and Omics Approaches for Complex Human Diseases. Biomolecules 2023; 13:1080. [PMID: 37509116 PMCID: PMC10377378 DOI: 10.3390/biom13071080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2023] [Accepted: 06/30/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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For many years, there has been general interest in developing virtual cells or digital twin models [...].
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- Kumar Selvarajoo
- Bioinformatics Institute (BII), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 138671, Singapore
- Synthetic Biology for Clinical and Technological Innovation (SynCTI), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 117456, Singapore
- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 639798, Singapore
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- Environment and Health Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Roma, Italy
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Roesch E, Greener JG, MacLean AL, Nassar H, Rackauckas C, Holy TE, Stumpf MPH. Julia for biologists. Nat Methods 2023; 20:655-664. [PMID: 37024649 PMCID: PMC10216852 DOI: 10.1038/s41592-023-01832-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2021] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 04/08/2023]
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Major computational challenges exist in relation to the collection, curation, processing and analysis of large genomic and imaging datasets, as well as the simulation of larger and more realistic models in systems biology. Here we discuss how a relative newcomer among programming languages-Julia-is poised to meet the current and emerging demands in the computational biosciences and beyond. Speed, flexibility, a thriving package ecosystem and readability are major factors that make high-performance computing and data analysis available to an unprecedented degree. We highlight how Julia's design is already enabling new ways of analyzing biological data and systems, and we provide a list of resources that can facilitate the transition into Julian computing.
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- Elisabeth Roesch
- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Melbourne Integrative Genomics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- JuliaHub, Somerville, MA, USA
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- Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Quantitative and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- JuliaHub, Somerville, MA, USA
- Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Pumas-AI, Centreville, VA, USA
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- Melbourne Integrative Genomics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- ARC Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Benson M. Digital Twins for Predictive, Preventive Personalized, and Participatory Treatment of Immune-Mediated Diseases. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2023; 43:410-416. [PMID: 36700428 DOI: 10.1161/atvbaha.122.318331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 01/12/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Digital twins are computational models of complex systems, which aim to understand and optimize those systems more effectively than would be possible in real life. Ideally, digital twins can be translated to individual patients, to characterize and computationally treat their diseases with thousands of drugs, to select the drug or drugs that cure the patients. The background problem is that many patients do not respond adequately to drug treatment. This problem reflects a wide gap between the complexity of diseases and clinical practice. Each disease may involve altered interactions between thousands of genes that vary between different cell types in different organs. To our knowledge, these altered interactions have not been characterized on a genome-, cellulome-, and organ-wide scale in any disease. Thus, clinical translation of the digital twin ideal for predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory treatment involves formidable challenges, which are close to the limits of, or beyond today's technologies. Here, I discuss recent developments and challenges in relation to that ideal focusing on immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, as well as examples from other diseases.
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- Mikael Benson
- Medical Digital Twin Research Group, Division of ENT Diseases, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Kong LW, Weng Y, Glaz B, Haile M, Lai YC. Reservoir computing as digital twins for nonlinear dynamical systems. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2023; 33:033111. [PMID: 37003826 DOI: 10.1063/5.0138661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Accepted: 02/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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We articulate the design imperatives for machine learning based digital twins for nonlinear dynamical systems, which can be used to monitor the "health" of the system and anticipate future collapse. The fundamental requirement for digital twins of nonlinear dynamical systems is dynamical evolution: the digital twin must be able to evolve its dynamical state at the present time to the next time step without further state input-a requirement that reservoir computing naturally meets. We conduct extensive tests using prototypical systems from optics, ecology, and climate, where the respective specific examples are a chaotic CO2 laser system, a model of phytoplankton subject to seasonality, and the Lorenz-96 climate network. We demonstrate that, with a single or parallel reservoir computer, the digital twins are capable of a variety of challenging forecasting and monitoring tasks. Our digital twin has the following capabilities: (1) extrapolating the dynamics of the target system to predict how it may respond to a changing dynamical environment, e.g., a driving signal that it has never experienced before, (2) making continual forecasting and monitoring with sparse real-time updates under non-stationary external driving, (3) inferring hidden variables in the target system and accurately reproducing/predicting their dynamical evolution, (4) adapting to external driving of different waveform, and (5) extrapolating the global bifurcation behaviors to network systems of different sizes. These features make our digital twins appealing in applications, such as monitoring the health of critical systems and forecasting their potential collapse induced by environmental changes or perturbations. Such systems can be an infrastructure, an ecosystem, or a regional climate system.
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- Ling-Wei Kong
- School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA
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- School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA
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- Vehicle Technology Directorate, CCDC Army Research Laboratory, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, Maryland 20783-1138, USA
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- Vehicle Technology Directorate, CCDC Army Research Laboratory, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, Maryland 20783-1138, USA
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- School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA
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Assessing overdiagnosis of fecal immunological test screening for colorectal cancer with a digital twin approach. NPJ Digit Med 2023; 6:24. [PMID: 36765093 PMCID: PMC9918445 DOI: 10.1038/s41746-023-00763-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2022] [Accepted: 01/21/2023] [Indexed: 02/12/2023] Open
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Evaluating the magnitude of overdiagnosis associated with stool-based service screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) beyond a randomized controlled trial is often intractable and understudied. We aim to estimate the proportion of overdiagnosis in population-based service screening programs for CRC with the fecal immunochemical test (FIT). The natural process of overdiagnosis-embedded disease was first built up to learn transition parameters that quantify the pathway of non-progressive and progressive screen-detected cases calibrated with sensitivity, while also taking competing mortality into account. The Markov algorithms were then developed for estimating these transition parameters based on Taiwan FIT service CRC screening data on 5,417,699 residents aged 50-69 years from 2004 to 2014. Following the digital twin design with the parallel universe structure for emulating the randomized controlled trial, the screened twin, mirroring the control group without screening, was virtually recreated by the application of the above-mentioned trained parameters to predict CRC cases containing overdiagnosis. The ratio of the predicted CRCs derived from the screened twin to the observed CRCs of the control group minus 1 was imputed to measure the extent of overdiagnosis. The extent of overdiagnosis for invasive CRCs resulting from FIT screening is 4.16% (95% CI: 2.61-5.78%). The corresponding figure is increased to 9.90% (95% CI: 8.41-11.42%) for including high grade dysplasia (HGD) and further inflated to 15.83% (95% CI: 15.23-16.46%) when the removal adenoma is considered. The modest proportion of overdiagnosis modelled by the digital twin method, dispensing with the randomized controlled trial design, suggests the harm done to population-based FIT service screening is negligible.
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Recently, advances in wearable technologies, data science and machine learning have begun to transform evidence-based medicine, offering a tantalizing glimpse into a future of next-generation 'deep' medicine. Despite stunning advances in basic science and technology, clinical translations in major areas of medicine are lagging. While the COVID-19 pandemic exposed inherent systemic limitations of the clinical trial landscape, it also spurred some positive changes, including new trial designs and a shift toward a more patient-centric and intuitive evidence-generation system. In this Perspective, I share my heuristic vision of the future of clinical trials and evidence-based medicine.
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Gonsard A, AbouTaam R, Prévost B, Roy C, Hadchouel A, Nathan N, Taytard J, Pirojoc A, Delacourt C, Wanin S, Drummond D. Children's views on artificial intelligence and digital twins for the daily management of their asthma: a mixed-method study. Eur J Pediatr 2023; 182:877-888. [PMID: 36512148 PMCID: PMC9745267 DOI: 10.1007/s00431-022-04754-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2022] [Revised: 11/30/2022] [Accepted: 12/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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New technologies enable the creation of digital twin systems (DTS) combining continuous data collection from children's home and artificial intelligence (AI)-based recommendations to adapt their care in real time. The objective was to assess whether children and adolescents with asthma would be ready to use such DTS. A mixed-method study was conducted with 104 asthma patients aged 8 to 17 years. The potential advantages and disadvantages associated with AI and the use of DTS were collected in semi-structured interviews. Children were then asked whether they would agree to use a DTS for the daily management of their asthma. The strength of their decision was assessed as well as the factors determining their choice. The main advantages of DTS identified by children were the possibility to be (i) supported in managing their asthma (ii) from home and (iii) in real time. Technical issues and the risk of loss of humanity were the main drawbacks reported. Half of the children (56%) were willing to use a DTS for the daily management of their asthma if it was as effective as current care, and up to 93% if it was more effective. Those with the best computer skills were more likely to choose the DTS, while those who placed a high value on the physician-patient relationship were less likely to do so. Conclusions: The majority of children were ready to use a DTS for the management of their asthma, particularly if it was more effective than current care. The results of this study support the development of DTS for childhood asthma and the evaluation of their effectiveness in clinical trials. What is Known: • New technologies enable the creation of digital twin systems (DTS) for children with asthma. • Acceptance of these DTSs by children with asthma is unknown. What is New: • Half of the children (56%) were willing to use a DTS for the daily management of their asthma if it was as effective as current care, and up to 93% if it was more effective. •Children identified the ability to be supported from home and in real time as the main benefits of DTS.
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- Apolline Gonsard
- Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, University Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, AP-HP, 149 Rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France
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- Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, University Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, AP-HP, 149 Rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France
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- Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, University Hospital Armand Trousseau, AP-HP Paris, France
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- Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, University Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, AP-HP, 149 Rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France
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- Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, University Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, AP-HP, 149 Rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France
- Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, University Hospital Armand Trousseau, AP-HP Paris, France
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- Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, University Hospital Armand Trousseau, AP-HP Paris, France
- UMRS1158 Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale Et Clinique, Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Paris, France
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- Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, University Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, AP-HP, 149 Rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France
- Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Department of Pediatric Allergology, University Hospital Armand Trousseau, APHP, Paris, France
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- Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, University Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, AP-HP, 149 Rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France
- Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Inserm UMR 1138, Centre de Recherche Des Cordeliers, HeKA Team, 75006 Paris, France
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Drummond D, Coulet A. Technical, Ethical, Legal, and Societal Challenges With Digital Twin Systems for the Management of Chronic Diseases in Children and Young People. J Med Internet Res 2022; 24:e39698. [DOI: 10.2196/39698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2022] [Revised: 09/11/2022] [Accepted: 10/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Advances in digital medicine now make it possible to use digital twin systems (DTS), which combine (1) extensive patient monitoring through the use of multiple sensors and (2) personalized adaptation of patient care through the use of software. After the artificial pancreas system already operational in children with type 1 diabetes, new DTS could be developed for real-time monitoring and management of children with chronic diseases. Just as providing care for children is a specific discipline—pediatrics—because of their particular characteristics and needs, providing digital care for children also presents particular challenges. This article reviews the technical challenges, mainly related to the problem of data collection in children; the ethical challenges, including the need to preserve the child's place in their care when using DTS; the legal challenges and the dual need to guarantee the safety of DTS for children and to ensure their access to DTS; and the societal challenges, including the needs to maintain human contact and trust between the child and the pediatrician and to limit DTS to specific uses to avoid contributing to a surveillance society and, at another level, to climate change.
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Emmert-Streib F, Yli-Harja O. What Is a Digital Twin? Experimental Design for a Data-Centric Machine Learning Perspective in Health. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:13149. [PMID: 36361936 PMCID: PMC9653941 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232113149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2022] [Revised: 10/25/2022] [Accepted: 10/27/2022] [Indexed: 08/08/2023] Open
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The idea of a digital twin has recently gained widespread attention. While, so far, it has been used predominantly for problems in engineering and manufacturing, it is believed that a digital twin also holds great promise for applications in medicine and health. However, a problem that severely hampers progress in these fields is the lack of a solid definition of the concept behind a digital twin that would be directly amenable for such big data-driven fields requiring a statistical data analysis. In this paper, we address this problem. We will see that the term 'digital twin', as used in the literature, is like a Matryoshka doll. For this reason, we unstack the concept via a data-centric machine learning perspective, allowing us to define its main components. As a consequence, we suggest to use the term Digital Twin System instead of digital twin because this highlights its complex interconnected substructure. In addition, we address ethical concerns that result from treatment suggestions for patients based on simulated data and a possible lack of explainability of the underling models.
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- Frank Emmert-Streib
- Predictive Society and Data Analytics Lab, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, 33100 Tampere, Finland
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- Computational Systems Biology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, 33720 Tampere, Finland
- Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Fortuna MA. The phenotypic plasticity of an evolving digital organism. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2022; 9:220852. [PMID: 36117864 PMCID: PMC9470259 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.220852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2022] [Accepted: 08/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades. Therefore, understanding the extent to which species will cope with rising temperatures is of paramount importance. Phenotypic plasticity is the ability of an organism to change the morphological and functional traits encoded by its genome in response to the environment. I show here that plasticity pervades not only natural but also artificial systems that mimic the developmental process of biological organisms, such as self-replicating and evolving computer programs-digital organisms. Specifically, the environment can modify the sequence of instructions executed from a digital organism's genome (i.e. its transcriptome), which results in changes in its phenotype (i.e. the ability of the digital organism to perform Boolean logic operations). This genetic-based pathway for plasticity comes at a fitness cost to an organism's viability and generation time: the longer the transcriptome (higher fitness cost), the more chances for the environment to modify the genetic execution flow control, and the higher the likelihood for the genome to encode novel phenotypes. By studying to what extent a digital organism's phenotype is influenced by both its genome and the environment, I make a parallelism between natural and artificial evolving systems on how natural selection might slide trait regulation anywhere along a continuum from total environmental control to total genomic control, which harbours lessons not only for designing evolvable artificial systems, but also for synthetic biology.
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- Miguel A. Fortuna
- Computational Biology Lab, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Seville, Spain
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Sahal R, Alsamhi SH, Brown KN. Personal Digital Twin: A Close Look into the Present and a Step towards the Future of Personalised Healthcare Industry. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 22:s22155918. [PMID: 35957477 PMCID: PMC9371419 DOI: 10.3390/s22155918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2022] [Revised: 07/22/2022] [Accepted: 08/01/2022] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Digital twins (DTs) play a vital role in revolutionising the healthcare industry, leading to more personalised, intelligent, and proactive healthcare. With the evolution of personalised healthcare, there is a significant need to represent a virtual replica for individuals to provide the right type of care in the right way and at the right time. Therefore, in this paper, we surveyed the concept of a personal digital twin (PDT) as an enhanced version of the DT with actionable insight capabilities. In particular, PDT can bring value to patients by enabling more accurate decision making and proper treatment selection and optimisation. Then, we explored the progression of PDT as a revolutionary technology in healthcare research and industry. However, although several research works have been performed for smart healthcare using DT, PDT is still at an early stage. Consequently, we believe that this work can be a step towards smart personalised healthcare industry by guiding the design of industrial personalised healthcare systems. Accordingly, we introduced a reference framework that empowers smart personalised healthcare using PDTs by bringing together existing advanced technologies (i.e., DT, blockchain, and AI). Then, we described some selected use cases, including the mitigation of COVID-19 contagion, COVID-19 survivor follow-up care, personalised COVID-19 medicine, personalised osteoporosis prevention, personalised cancer survivor follow-up care, and personalised nutrition. Finally, we identified further challenges to pave the PDT paradigm toward the smart personalised healthcare industry.
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- Radhya Sahal
- School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University College Cork, T12 E8YV Cork, Ireland
- Correspondence: (R.S.); (K.N.B.)
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- Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, N37 W089 Galway, Ireland
- Faculty of Engineering, IBB University, Ibb 70270, Yemen
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- School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University College Cork, T12 E8YV Cork, Ireland
- Correspondence: (R.S.); (K.N.B.)
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Armeni P, Polat I, De Rossi LM, Diaferia L, Meregalli S, Gatti A. Digital Twins in Healthcare: Is It the Beginning of a New Era of Evidence-Based Medicine? A Critical Review. J Pers Med 2022; 12:jpm12081255. [PMID: 36013204 PMCID: PMC9410074 DOI: 10.3390/jpm12081255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2022] [Revised: 07/20/2022] [Accepted: 07/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Digital Twins (DTs) are used in many different industries (e.g., manufacturing, construction, automotive, and aerospace), and there is an initial trend of applications in healthcare, mainly focusing on precision medicine. If their potential is fully unfolded, DTs will facilitate the as-yet-unrealized potential of connected care and alter the way lifestyle, health, wellness, and chronic disease will be managed in the future. To date, however, due to technical, regulatory and ethical roadblocks, there is no consensus as to what extent DTs in healthcare can introduce revolutionary applications in the next decade. In this review, we present the current applications of DTs covering multiple areas of healthcare (precision medicine, clinical trial design, and hospital operations) to identify the opportunities and the barriers that foster or hinder their larger and faster diffusion. Finally, we discuss the current findings, opportunities and barriers, and provide recommendations to facilitate the continuous development of DTs application in healthcare.
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- Patrizio Armeni
- LIFT Lab and CERGAS, GHNP Division and Claudio Demattè Research Division, SDA Bocconi School of Management, 20136 Milano, Italy
- Correspondence:
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- LIFT Lab, Claudio Demattè Research Division and GHNP Division, SDA Bocconi School of Management, 20136 Milano, Italy; (I.P.); (A.G.)
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- SDA Bocconi School of Management, 20136 Milano, Italy; (L.M.D.R.); (L.D.); (S.M.)
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- SDA Bocconi School of Management, 20136 Milano, Italy; (L.M.D.R.); (L.D.); (S.M.)
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- LIFT Lab, Claudio Demattè Research Division and GHNP Division, SDA Bocconi School of Management, 20136 Milano, Italy; (I.P.); (A.G.)
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Gibbons SM, Gurry T, Lampe JW, Chakrabarti A, Dam V, Everard A, Goas A, Gross G, Kleerebezem M, Lane J, Maukonen J, Penna ALB, Pot B, Valdes AM, Walton G, Weiss A, Zanzer YC, Venlet NV, Miani M. Perspective: Leveraging the Gut Microbiota to Predict Personalized Responses to Dietary, Prebiotic, and Probiotic Interventions. Adv Nutr 2022; 13:1450-1461. [PMID: 35776947 PMCID: PMC9526856 DOI: 10.1093/advances/nmac075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2022] [Revised: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Humans often show variable responses to dietary, prebiotic, and probiotic interventions. Emerging evidence indicates that the gut microbiota is a key determinant for this population heterogeneity. Here, we provide an overview of some of the major computational and experimental tools being applied to critical questions of microbiota-mediated personalized nutrition and health. First, we discuss the latest advances in in silico modeling of the microbiota-nutrition-health axis, including the application of statistical, mechanistic, and hybrid artificial intelligence models. Second, we address high-throughput in vitro techniques for assessing interindividual heterogeneity, from ex vivo batch culturing of stool and continuous culturing in anaerobic bioreactors, to more sophisticated organ-on-a-chip models that integrate both host and microbial compartments. Third, we explore in vivo approaches for better understanding of personalized, microbiota-mediated responses to diet, prebiotics, and probiotics, from nonhuman animal models and human observational studies, to human feeding trials and crossover interventions. We highlight examples of existing, consumer-facing precision nutrition platforms that are currently leveraging the gut microbiota. Furthermore, we discuss how the integration of a broader set of the tools and techniques described in this piece can generate the data necessary to support a greater diversity of precision nutrition strategies. Finally, we present a vision of a precision nutrition and healthcare future, which leverages the gut microbiota to design effective, individual-specific interventions.
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- Pharmaceutical Biochemistry group, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Western Switzerland (PSI-WS), University of Geneva/University of Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Sensus BV (Royal Cosun), Roosendaal, The Netherlands
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- Metabolism and Nutrition Research Group, Louvain Drug Research Institute, Walloon Excellence in Life Sciences and BIOtechnology (WELBIO), UCLouvain, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Food, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
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- Medical and Scientific Affairs, Reckitt| Mead Johnson Nutrition Institute, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Host Microbe Interactomics Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Health and Happiness Group, H&H Research, Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Food Engineering and Technology, São Paulo State University, São José do Rio Preto, Brazil
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- Yakult Europe BV, Almere, The Netherlands
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- Nottingham NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at the School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
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- Yili Innovation Center Europe, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- International Life Sciences Institute, European Branch, Brussels, Belgium
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- International Life Sciences Institute, European Branch, Brussels, Belgium
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An G, Cockrell C. Drug Development Digital Twins for Drug Discovery, Testing and Repurposing: A Schema for Requirements and Development. FRONTIERS IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY 2022; 2:928387. [PMID: 35935475 PMCID: PMC9351294 DOI: 10.3389/fsysb.2022.928387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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There has been a great deal of interest in the concept, development and implementation of medical digital twins. This interest has led to wide ranging perceptions of what constitutes a medical digital twin. This Perspectives article will provide 1) a description of fundamental features of industrial digital twins, the source of the digital twin concept, 2) aspects of biology that challenge the implementation of medical digital twins, 3) a schematic program of how a specific medical digital twin project could be defined, and 4) an example description within that schematic program for a specific type of medical digital twin intended for drug discovery, testing and repurposing, the Drug Development Digital Twin (DDDT).
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- Gary An
- Department of Surgery, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, Burlington, VT, United States
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- Department of Surgery, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, Burlington, VT, United States
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Laubenbacher R, Niarakis A, Helikar T, An G, Shapiro B, Malik-Sheriff RS, Sego TJ, Knapp A, Macklin P, Glazier JA. Building digital twins of the human immune system: toward a roadmap. NPJ Digit Med 2022; 5:64. [PMID: 35595830 PMCID: PMC9122990 DOI: 10.1038/s41746-022-00610-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2021] [Accepted: 04/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Digital twins, customized simulation models pioneered in industry, are beginning to be deployed in medicine and healthcare, with some major successes, for instance in cardiovascular diagnostics and in insulin pump control. Personalized computational models are also assisting in applications ranging from drug development to treatment optimization. More advanced medical digital twins will be essential to making precision medicine a reality. Because the immune system plays an important role in such a wide range of diseases and health conditions, from fighting pathogens to autoimmune disorders, digital twins of the immune system will have an especially high impact. However, their development presents major challenges, stemming from the inherent complexity of the immune system and the difficulty of measuring many aspects of a patient’s immune state in vivo. This perspective outlines a roadmap for meeting these challenges and building a prototype of an immune digital twin. It is structured as a four-stage process that proceeds from a specification of a concrete use case to model constructions, personalization, and continued improvement.
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- R Laubenbacher
- Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Européen de Recherche pour la Polyarthrite rhumatoïde - Genhotel, Univ Evry, Evry, France.,Lifeware Group, Inria, Saclay-île de France, 91120, Palaiseau, France
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
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- Biocomplexity Institute and Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Biocomplexity Institute and Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Biocomplexity Institute and Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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Li X, Lee EJ, Lilja S, Loscalzo J, Schäfer S, Smelik M, Strobl MR, Sysoev O, Wang H, Zhang H, Zhao Y, Gawel DR, Bohle B, Benson M. A dynamic single cell-based framework for digital twins to prioritize disease genes and drug targets. Genome Med 2022; 14:48. [PMID: 35513850 PMCID: PMC9074288 DOI: 10.1186/s13073-022-01048-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2021] [Accepted: 04/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Medical digital twins are computational disease models for drug discovery and treatment. Unresolved problems include how to organize and prioritize between disease-associated changes in digital twins, on cellulome- and genome-wide scales. We present a dynamic framework that can be used to model such changes and thereby prioritize upstream regulators (URs) for biomarker- and drug discovery. Methods We started with seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR) as a disease model, by analyses of in vitro allergen-stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from SAR patients. Time-series a single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) data of these cells were used to construct multicellular network models (MNMs) at each time point of molecular interactions between cell types. We hypothesized that predicted molecular interactions between cell types in the MNMs could be traced to find an UR gene, at an early time point. We performed bioinformatic and functional studies of the MNMs to develop a scalable framework to prioritize UR genes. This framework was tested on a single-cell and bulk-profiling data from SAR and other inflammatory diseases. Results Our scRNA-seq-based time-series MNMs of SAR showed thousands of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) across multiple cell types, which varied between time points. Instead of a single-UR gene in each MNM, we found multiple URs dispersed across the cell types. Thus, at each time point, the MNMs formed multi-directional networks. The absence of linear hierarchies and time-dependent variations in MNMs complicated the prioritization of URs. For example, the expression and functions of Th2 cytokines, which are approved drug targets in allergies, varied across cell types, and time points. Our analyses of bulk- and single-cell data from other inflammatory diseases also revealed multi-directional networks that showed stage-dependent variations. We therefore developed a quantitative approach to prioritize URs: we ranked the URs based on their predicted effects on downstream target cells. Experimental and bioinformatic analyses supported that this kind of ranking is a tractable approach for prioritizing URs. Conclusions We present a scalable framework for modeling dynamic changes in digital twins, on cellulome- and genome-wide scales, to prioritize UR genes for biomarker and drug discovery. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13073-022-01048-4.
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- Xinxiu Li
- Centre for Personalized Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Centre for Personalized Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.,Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea
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- Centre for Personalized Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Centre for Personalized Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Centre for Personalized Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Statistics and Machine Learning, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linkoping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Centre for Personalized Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Centre for Personalized Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Centre for Personalized Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Centre for Personalized Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. .,Crown Princess Victoria Children's Hospital, Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden. .,Division of ENT Diseases, Department of Clinical Sciences, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Braun M, Krutzinna J. Digital twins and the ethics of health decision-making concerning children. PATTERNS 2022; 3:100469. [PMID: 35465232 PMCID: PMC9023882 DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2022.100469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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In this review, we explore from an ethical perspective the opportunities and challenges for decision-making concerning children if digital twins (DTs) were to be used to provide better information about their health status as a basis for proxy decision-making. We note a sense of urgency due to the speed of progress and implementation of this advancing technology and argue that bringing a solid conceptual basis into the development process is of utmost importance for the effective protection of children’s rights and interests. There is a substantial need in child protection to design the decision-making process in a way that is in the best interests of the child. The solution to this problem will not lie in new technology alone but also in new techniques and technologies that are urgently needed to make children and their interests more visible and to integrate them in decision-making processes. In the health context, this concerns particularly better knowledge of the health status of those children who are especially dependent on the vicarious decisions of others. In doing so, however, we are confronted with an ethical dilemma: on the one hand, children are a particularly vulnerable group, dependent on empowerment and opportunities for genuine participation. In this regard, digital twins (DTs) may provide a substantive opportunity to empower children by providing better and more precise information on their behalf. On the other hand, DT is a technology with great potential to add new forms of vulnerability through its constant, real-time, and ad personam predictions. Consequently, we argue that DTs hold significant potential for a positive contribution to these processes provided that critical concerns regarding vulnerability, recognition, and participation are adequately addressed.
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Digital Twins of the Soil Microbiome for Climate Mitigation. ENVIRONMENTS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/environments9030034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Recent advances in computation power have enabled the creation of digital twins of the microbiome (DTM) to substantially curb soil greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions under global change conditions [...]
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Digital Twin Technology Challenges and Applications: A Comprehensive Review. REMOTE SENSING 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/rs14061335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical object or process capable of collecting information from the real environment to represent, validate and simulate the physical twin’s present and future behavior. It is a key enabler of data-driven decision making, complex systems monitoring, product validation and simulation and object lifecycle management. As an emergent technology, its widespread implementation is increasing in several domains such as industrial, automotive, medicine, smart cities, etc. The objective of this systematic literature review is to present a comprehensive view on the DT technology and its implementation challenges and limits in the most relevant domains and applications in engineering and beyond.
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Sordo Vieira L, Laubenbacher RC. Computational models in systems biology: standards, dissemination, and best practices. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2022; 75:102702. [PMID: 35217296 DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2022.102702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2021] [Revised: 11/15/2021] [Accepted: 02/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Mathematical and computational models are a key technology in systems biology. Progress in the field depends on the replicability and reproducibility of their properties and behavior. For this, an essential requirement is a set of clear standards for model specification and dissemination. This review covers existing standards, and it highlights the most important areas where further work is required. This includes the specification of agent-based models, an increasingly common modeling approach.
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- Luis Sordo Vieira
- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, United States; Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, United States
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, United States.
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Joslyn LR, Linderman JJ, Kirschner DE. A virtual host model of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection identifies early immune events as predictive of infection outcomes. J Theor Biol 2022; 539:111042. [PMID: 35114195 PMCID: PMC9169921 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2022.111042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2021] [Revised: 01/14/2022] [Accepted: 01/23/2022] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Tuberculosis (TB), caused by infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), is one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases and remains a significant global health burden. TB disease and pathology can present clinically across a spectrum of outcomes, ranging from total sterilization of infection to active disease. Much remains unknown about the biology that drives an individual towards various clinical outcomes as it is challenging to experimentally address specific mechanisms driving clinical outcomes. Furthermore, it is unknown whether numbers of immune cells in the blood accurately reflect ongoing events during infection within human lungs. Herein, we utilize a systems biology approach by developing a whole-host model of the immune response to Mtb across multiple physiologic and time scales. This model, called HostSim, tracks events at the cellular, granuloma, organ, and host scale and represents the first whole-host, multi-scale model of the immune response following Mtb infection. We show that this model can capture various aspects of human and non-human primate TB disease and predict that biomarkers in the blood may only faithfully represent events in the lung at early time points after infection. We posit that HostSim, as a first step toward personalized digital twins in TB research, offers a powerful computational tool that can be used in concert with experimental approaches to understand and predict events about various aspects of TB disease and therapeutics.
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- Louis R Joslyn
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, 1150 W Medical Center Drive, 5641 Medical Science II, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5620; Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, G045W NCRC B28, 2800 Plymouth Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, G045W NCRC B28, 2800 Plymouth Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136.
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, 1150 W Medical Center Drive, 5641 Medical Science II, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5620.
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Buchsbaum JC, Jaffray DA, Ba D, Borkon LL, Chalk C, Chung C, Coleman MA, Coleman CN, Diehn M, Droegemeier KK, Enderling H, Espey MG, Greenspan EJ, Hartshorn CM, Hoang T, Hsiao HT, Keppel C, Moore NW, Prior F, Stahlberg EA, Tourassi G, Willcox KE. Predictive Radiation Oncology - A New NCI-DOE Scientific Space and Community. Radiat Res 2022; 197:434-445. [PMID: 35090025 DOI: 10.1667/rade-22-00012.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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With a widely attended virtual kickoff event on January 29, 2021, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Department of Energy (DOE) launched a series of 4 interactive, interdisciplinary workshops-and a final concluding "World Café" on March 29, 2021-focused on advancing computational approaches for predictive oncology in the clinical and research domains of radiation oncology. These events reflect 3,870 human hours of virtual engagement with representation from 8 DOE national laboratories and the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNL), 4 research institutes, 5 cancer centers, 17 medical schools and teaching hospitals, 5 companies, 5 federal agencies, 3 research centers, and 27 universities. Here we summarize the workshops by first describing the background for the workshops. Participants identified twelve key questions-and collaborative parallel ideas-as the focus of work going forward to advance the field. These were then used to define short-term and longer-term "Blue Sky" goals. In addition, the group determined key success factors for predictive oncology in the context of radiation oncology, if not the future of all of medicine. These are: cross-discipline collaboration, targeted talent development, development of mechanistic mathematical and computational models and tools, and access to high-quality multiscale data that bridges mechanisms to phenotype. The workshop participants reported feeling energized and highly motivated to pursue next steps together to address the unmet needs in radiation oncology specifically and in cancer research generally and that NCI and DOE project goals align at the convergence of radiation therapy and advanced computing.
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- The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
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- Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, 21701
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- The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030
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- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida 33612
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC 20585
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- American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), Arlington, Virginia 22202
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- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87123
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- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205
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- Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, 21701
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Böttcher L, Nagler J. Decisive conditions for strategic vaccination against SARS-CoV-2. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2021; 31:101105. [PMID: 34717322 DOI: 10.1063/5.0066992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2021] [Accepted: 09/01/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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While vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) are being administered, in many countries it may still take months until their supply can meet demand. The majority of available vaccines elicit strong immune responses when administered as prime-boost regimens. Since the immunological response to the first ("prime") dose may provide already a substantial reduction in infectiousness and protection against severe disease, it may be more effective-under certain immunological and epidemiological conditions-to vaccinate as many people as possible with only one dose instead of administering a person a second ("booster") dose. Such a vaccination campaign may help to more effectively slow down the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and reduce hospitalizations and fatalities. The conditions that make prime-first vaccination favorable over prime-boost campaigns, however, are not well understood. By combining epidemiological modeling, random-sampling techniques, and decision tree learning, we find that prime-first vaccination is robustly favored over prime-boost vaccination campaigns even for low single-dose efficacies. For epidemiological parameters that describe the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), recent data on new variants included, we show that the difference between prime-boost and single-shot waning rates is the only discriminative threshold, falling in the narrow range of 0.01-0.02 day-1 below which prime-first vaccination should be considered.
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- Lucas Böttcher
- Computational Social Science, Centre for Human and Machine Intelligence, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Deep Dynamics Group, Centre for Human and Machine Intelligence, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Barbiero P, Viñas Torné R, Lió P. Graph Representation Forecasting of Patient's Medical Conditions: Toward a Digital Twin. Front Genet 2021; 12:652907. [PMID: 34603366 PMCID: PMC8481902 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.652907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Accepted: 06/24/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Objective: Modern medicine needs to shift from a wait and react, curative discipline to a preventative, interdisciplinary science aiming at providing personalized, systemic, and precise treatment plans to patients. To this purpose, we propose a "digital twin" of patients modeling the human body as a whole and providing a panoramic view over individuals' conditions. Methods: We propose a general framework that composes advanced artificial intelligence (AI) approaches and integrates mathematical modeling in order to provide a panoramic view over current and future pathophysiological conditions. Our modular architecture is based on a graph neural network (GNN) forecasting clinically relevant endpoints (such as blood pressure) and a generative adversarial network (GAN) providing a proof of concept of transcriptomic integrability. Results: We tested our digital twin model on two simulated clinical case studies combining information at organ, tissue, and cellular level. We provided a panoramic overview over current and future patient's conditions by monitoring and forecasting clinically relevant endpoints representing the evolution of patient's vital parameters using the GNN model. We showed how to use the GAN to generate multi-tissue expression data for blood and lung to find associations between cytokines conditioned on the expression of genes in the renin-angiotensin pathway. Our approach was to detect inflammatory cytokines, which are known to have effects on blood pressure and have previously been associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection (e.g., CXCR6, XCL1, and others). Significance: The graph representation of a computational patient has potential to solve important technological challenges in integrating multiscale computational modeling with AI. We believe that this work represents a step forward toward next-generation devices for precision and predictive medicine.
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Böttcher L, Nagler J. Decisive Conditions for Strategic Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2. MEDRXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES 2021:2021.03.05.21252962. [PMID: 33758886 PMCID: PMC7987045 DOI: 10.1101/2021.03.05.21252962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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While vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 are being administered, in most countries it may still take months until their supply can meet demand. The majority of available vaccines elicits strong immune responses when administered as prime-boost regimens. Since the immunological response to the first ("prime") injection may provide already a substantial reduction in infectiousness and protection against severe disease, it may be more effective-under certain immunological and epidemiological conditions-to vaccinate as many people as possible with only one shot, instead of administering a person a second ("boost") shot. Such a vaccination campaign may help to more effectively slow down the spread of SARS-CoV-2, reduce hospitalizations, and reduce fatalities, which is our objective. Yet, the conditions which make single-dose vaccination favorable over prime-boost administrations are not well understood. By combining epidemiological modeling, random sampling techniques, and decision tree learning, we find that single-dose vaccination is robustly favored over prime-boost vaccination campaigns, even for low single-dose efficacies. For realistic scenarios and assumptions for SARS-CoV-2, recent data on new variants included, we show that the difference between prime-boost and single-shot waning rates is the only discriminative threshold, falling in the narrow range of 0.01-0.02 day-1 below which single-dose vaccination should be considered.
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- Lucas Böttcher
- Dept. of Computational Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1766, United States of America
- Computational Social Science, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt am Main, 60322, Germany
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- Deep Dynamics Group, Centre for Human and Machine Intelligence, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt am Main, 60322, Germany
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A Digital Twins Machine Learning Model for Forecasting Disease Progression in Stroke Patients. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/app11125576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Background: Machine learning methods have been developed to predict the likelihood of a given event or classify patients into two or more diagnostic categories. Digital twin models, which forecast entire trajectories of patient health data, have potential applications in clinical trials and patient management. Methods: In this study, we apply a digital twin model based on a variational autoencoder to a population of patients who went on to experience an ischemic stroke. The digital twin’s ability to model patient clinical features was assessed with regard to its ability to forecast clinical measurement trajectories leading up to the onset of the acute medical event and beyond using International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes for ischemic stroke and lab values as inputs. Results: The simulated patient trajectories were virtually indistinguishable from real patient data, with similar feature means, standard deviations, inter-feature correlations, and covariance structures on a withheld test set. A logistic regression adversary model was unable to distinguish between the real and simulated data area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUCadversary = 0.51). Conclusion: Through accurate projection of patient trajectories, this model may help inform clinical decision making or provide virtual control arms for efficient clinical trials.
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