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A modular computational framework for medical digital twins

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Masison, J., Beezley, J., Mei, Y., Ribeiro, HAL, Knapp, A. C., Sordo Vieira, L., Adhikari, B., Scindia, Y. +5 more·2021·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Significance: The digital twin paradigm holds great promise for medicine, even though many technical and scientific challenges remain to be overcome, most importantly the efficient integration of many heterogeneous component models. This is an unsolved problem even in industry. It has long been understood that such models need to be built in a modular fashion, connecting together component models of individual biological processes. In conventional implementations, however, the dependency structure of the modules reflects the dependencies among these processes, making it all but impossible to modify or expand the digital twin without breaking it. This paper presents a fundamental reorganization of the internal digital twin architecture into a hub-and-spokes design that completely circumvents this dependency problem.

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Masison, J., Beezley, J., Mei, Y., Ribeiro, H., Knapp, A. C., Sordo Vieira, L., Adhikari, B., Scindia, Y., Grauer, M., Helba, B., Schroeder, W., Mehrad, B., & Laubenbacher, R.
Affiliations
  • UConn Health (US)
  • Kitware (United States) (US)
  • University of Michigan (US)
  • Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611
  • University of Florida (US)
Corresponding author
Laubenbacher, R.
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2021-05-10
Volume
118
Issue
20
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
OpenAlex
W3163235749
Cited by
98
References
18
Citations by year
2026: 14 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 3
FWCI
16.25
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • HHS | NIH | National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (1U01EB024501-01)
  • HHS | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (1 R01AI135128-01)
  • HHS | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (1R01GM127909-01)
  • HHS | NIH | National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (T-90DE021989)
  • American Heart Association (18TPA34170486)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Technology and Human Factors in Education and Health
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Modeling and Simulation Systems
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Scientific Computing and Data Management
Keywords
medical digital twins, modular software platform, precision medicine, patient-specific disease modeling, model integration, data-driven modeling, mechanistic modeling, open source software, respiratory fungal infection, personalized treatment
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Animals, Antifungal Agents, Aspergillosis, Aspergillus fumigatus, Humans, Software, Spores, Fungal, Computational Biology, Precision Medicine, Patient-Specific Modeling

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