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Chengyue Wu, G. Lorenzo, D. Hormuth, E. Lima, Kalina P. Slavkova, J. DiCarlo, J. Virostko, Caleb M. Phillips, D. Patt, C. Chung, T. Yankeelov
Biophysical Reviews, 2022
Biophysical Reviews, 2022
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Wu, C., Lorenzo, G., Hormuth, D., Lima, E., Slavkova, K. P., DiCarlo, J., … Yankeelov, T. (2022). Integrating mechanism-based modeling with biomedical imaging to build practical digital twins for clinical oncology. Biophysical Reviews.
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Wu, Chengyue, G. Lorenzo, D. Hormuth, E. Lima, Kalina P. Slavkova, J. DiCarlo, J. Virostko, et al. “Integrating Mechanism-Based Modeling with Biomedical Imaging to Build Practical Digital Twins for Clinical Oncology.” Biophysical Reviews (2022).
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Wu, Chengyue, et al. “Integrating Mechanism-Based Modeling with Biomedical Imaging to Build Practical Digital Twins for Clinical Oncology.” Biophysical Reviews, 2022.
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@article{chengyue2022a,
title = {Integrating mechanism-based modeling with biomedical imaging to build practical digital twins for clinical oncology.},
year = {2022},
journal = {Biophysical Reviews},
author = {Wu, Chengyue and Lorenzo, G. and Hormuth, D. and Lima, E. and Slavkova, Kalina P. and DiCarlo, J. and Virostko, J. and Phillips, Caleb M. and Patt, D. and Chung, C. and Yankeelov, T.}
}
Abstract
Digital twins employ mathematical and computational models to virtually represent a physical object (e.g., planes and human organs), predict the behavior of the object, and enable decision-making to optimize the future behavior of the object. While digital twins have been widely used in engineering for decades, their applications to oncology are only just emerging. Due to advances in experimental techniques quantitatively characterizing cancer, as well as advances in the mathematical and computational sciences, the notion of building and applying digital twins to understand tumor dynamics and personalize the care of cancer patients has been increasingly appreciated. In this review, we present the opportunities and challenges of applying digital twins in clinical oncology, with a particular focus on integrating medical imaging with mechanism-based, tissue-scale mathematical modeling. Specifically, we first introduce the general digital twin framework and then illustrate existing applications of image-guided digital twins in healthcare. Next, we detail both the imaging and modeling techniques that provide practical opportunities to build patient-specific digital twins for oncology. We then describe the current challenges and limitations in developing image-guided, mechanism-based digital twins for oncology along with potential solutions. We conclude by outlining five fundamental questions that can serve as a roadmap when designing and building a practical digital twin for oncology and attempt to provide answers for a specific application to brain cancer. We hope that this contribution provides motivation for the imaging science, oncology, and computational communities to develop practical digital twin technologies to improve the care of patients battling cancer.
