Study on using digital twin technology for monitoring patients remotely
The objective of this study is to explore the utilization of digital twin technology in remote patient monitoring by generating a virtual model of the patient, analyzing their health information in real-time, forecasting disease progression, and crafting personalized treatment plans. The research makes use of the vast medical data of 1,000 people diagnosed with diabetes from a public database and uses various techniques like random forests, Support Vector Machines (SVM), and deep neural networks (DNN) to analyze and predict physical measurements such as heart rate, blood pressure, and blood sugar levels. Studies have discovered that digital twin technology is able to effectively mirror shifts in patients' physiological parameters and anticipate likely health concerns from those shifts, thereby improving medical choices. By refining data, creating new features, visualizing data, and applying other techniques, the model's predictive accuracy and usefulness are enhanced. This piece shows how digital twin technology has a lot of potential in areas like chronic disease management, postoperative rehab monitoring, and remote diagnosis. It's greatly improving medical service efficiency and patient health management effectiveness.
Authors
- A.K. Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0009-8848)
- Yueyang Zhai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0441-0520)
- Ying Feng
- Nan Zhang
Institutions
- Kansai Electric Power Hospital (JP)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-03-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3060454
- Primary Topic
- Digital Transformation in Industry
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00