Digital twin assisted surgery, concept, opportunities, and challenges.

Computer-assisted surgery is becoming essential in modern medicine to accurately plan, guide, and perform surgeries. Similarly, Digital Twin technology is expected to be instrumental in the future of surgery, owing to its capacity to virtually replicate patient-specific interventions whilst providing real-time updates to clinicians. This perspective introduces the term Digital Twin-Assisted Surgery and discusses its potential to improve surgical precision and outcome, along with key challenges for successful clinical translation.

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Acknowledgements: The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, EP/X033686/1, EP/W004860/1, EP/T024844/1). The funder played no role in the conceptualisation and writing of this manuscript. GDS is supported by The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research (RG95043), the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre (C9685/A25177 and CTRQQR-2021\100012) and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR203312). The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.

Keywords

4203 Health Services and Systems, 42 Health Sciences, Patient Safety, 6.4 Surgery, 3 Good Health and Well Being

Journal Title

NPJ Digit Med

Journal ISSN

2398-6352
2398-6352

Volume Title

8

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publisher DOI

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-024-01413-0

Rights and licensing

Except where otherwised noted, this item's license is described as http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sponsorship

Cancer Research UK (C96/A25177)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/X033686/1)

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