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Summary of Digital Twin Generators For Disease Modeling, by Nameyeh Alam et al.


Digital Twin Generators for Disease Modeling

by Nameyeh Alam, Jake Basilico, Daniele Bertolini, Satish Casie Chetty, Heather D’Angelo, Ryan Douglas, Charles K. Fisher, Franklin Fuller, Melissa Gomes, Rishabh Gupta, Alex Lang, Anton Loukianov, Rachel Mak-McCully, Cary Murray, Hanalei Pham, Susanna Qiao, Elena Ryapolova-Webb, Aaron Smith, Dimitri Theoharatos, Anil Tolwani, Eric W. Tramel, Anna Vidovszky, Judy Viduya, Jonathan R. Walsh

First submitted to arxiv on: 2 May 2024

Categories

  • Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
  • Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)

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Medium GrooveSquid.com (original content) Medium Difficulty Summary
A novel approach to generating digital twins of patients using neural networks has been proposed, with potential to revolutionize medicine. The Digital Twin Generators (DTGs) architecture leverages large datasets of historical patients’ longitudinal health records to create individual-level computer simulations of human health. This enables more efficient clinical trials and personalized treatment options. The same architecture can be trained across 13 different indications by changing the training set and tuning hyperparameters, unlocking scalability for machine learning approaches.
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Digital twins are computer models that mimic a patient’s health journey over time. Researchers have created an artificial intelligence (AI) model called Digital Twin Generators (DTGs) that uses data from many patients to create personalized digital twins. This technology could make it easier and cheaper to test new treatments or recommend the best treatment for each person.

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» Artificial intelligence  » Machine learning