Let a Digital Twin Predict Your Heart’s Health

In een artikel voor de Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) laat ik zien hoe digitale tweelingen van het cardiovasculaire systeem in de toekomst hartproblemen kunnen voorspellen nog vóórdat je klachten hebt — dankzij simulaties van miljoenen hartslagen en data uit wearables. Prachtig onderzoek van Amanda Randles (Duke University, VS), winnaar van de 2023 ACM Prize in Computing:

In an article for the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), I show how vascular digital twins may soon predict heart problems long before symptoms appear — powered by simulations spanning millions of heartbeats and data from wearables. Beautiful research by Amanda Randles (Duke University, USA), winner of the 2023 ACM Prize in Computing:

At the 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum this September, Amanda Randles reached a unique milestone: she is the first participant who attended the Forum first as a talented young researcher (in 2013) and returned to give a keynote lecture as a laureate of the ACM Prize in Computing. She won the 2023 prize for her work on “revolutionizing medical diagnostics”. 

Randles, who is now an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University, is developing vascular digital twins: virtual replicas of a patient’s vascular system. They evolve over time with the patient and are partly informed by data from wearable devices. Her long-term vision is that, in the future, these digital twins will be used to predict and prevent disease, beginning with heart attacks.

The whole article can be read on the ACM website.