Medical Xpress March 12, 2021
Indiana University

Building a personalized digital twin: Data from multiple scales are needed

What if you had a twin who doctors could work with to predict your future health care needs or how a particular virus might affect you? Obviously, we can’t experiment on a real clone of ourselves, but we can research different scenarios with a digital twin.

That’s the solution an Indiana University researcher is suggesting in order to predict individuals’ future health care needs as well as to prepare to respond more quickly and effectively to future pandemics.

James Glazier, a professor of intelligent systems engineering at the IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, along with co-authors James Sluka from IU’s Biocomplexity Institute and Reinhard Laubenbacher from...

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