Position Paper From the Digital Twins in Healthcare to the Virtual Human Twin: A Moon-Shot Project for Digital Health Research KU Leuven
The idea of a systematic digital representation of the entire known human pathophysiology, which we could call the Virtual Human Twin, has been around for decades. To date, most research groups focused instead on developing highly specialised, highly focused patient-specific models able to predict specific quantities of clinical relevance. While it has facilitated harvesting the low-hanging fruits, this narrow focus is, in the long run, leaving ...